Baltimore-based Laureate Education Inc. is selling off much of its higher education network in Latin America with the planned sale of universities in Brazil, and also is exiting the U.S. market with a sale of Walden University. © Amy Davis / Baltimore Sun/The Baltimore Sun/TNS Baltimore, MD-11/14/17 – Eilif Serck-Hanssen […]
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The University of Sydney has asked staff to “suggest” ways it could cut up to 30% of full-time jobs in some faculties, in a move the union claims could result in Australia’s largest university cuts. On Wednesday, staff in the school of education received an email telling them the dean […]
This article about higher education in Ohio was produced in partnership with The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. This is part 5 of the Colleges in Crisis series. Given current circumstances, Richard Vedder, an economics professor emeritus at Ohio University, is […]
This article about higher education in Ohio was produced in partnership with The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. This is part 5 of the Colleges in Crisis series. Given current circumstances, Richard Vedder, an economics professor emeritus at Ohio University, is […]
Students take part in a protest in Leeds yesterday despite the A-levels U-turn – Danny Lawson /PA Universities ‘will struggle to cope’ with student influx After the A-levels climbdown, universities have told the Government they will need more money if they are to take more students this year. Vice-chancellors met officials for […]
Some notable universities that spent time and resources planning to reopen campuses amid the coronavirus pandemic are now backtracking as COVID-19 cases surge among students. Notre Dame, located in In South Bend, Indiana, saw a spike in COVID-19 cases despite testing students before resuming in-campus instruction. The University of North […]
Outbreaks in North Carolina, Washington, California and Mississippi provided a glimpse of the challenges school officials face in keeping the virus from spreading on campuses North Carolina’s flagship university canceled in-person classes for undergraduates just a week into the fall semester Monday as college campuses around the U.S. scramble to […]
There’s the adventure of going off to college for the first time, that big, nerve-wracking step toward adulthood that some students have been preparing for their entire high school careers. And then there’s going off to college for the first time in 2020. That is, if this year’s freshman class […]
Photograph: Nina Westervelt/Rex/Shutterstock Ahead of the coming reopening of further education, universities and colleges around America are beginning to announce massive layoffs and job cuts, citing financial difficulties caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Public and private university systems announcing cuts to staff, pay and benefits include the University of Massachusetts, […]
Though the coronavirus is still, as President Trump put it last week, a “thing,” universities around the country are opening for the fall semester, albeit with an array of restrictions in place that are intended to tamp down the virus’ spread among students and faculty. But those restrictions seem to […]
As the coronavirus spread all over the world earlier this year, colleges and universities across the U.S. switched to remote learning to mitigate the possibility of outbreaks on campus. Now, even as the number of new cases in the U.S. continues to break records, many schools are planning to return […]
Jackson Butler received an unexpected boost this week after growing frustration that his final year at Georgetown University would be largely taught online with limited access to its Washington DC base. “It’s very clear we’ll have a diminished experience,” he said. “There will be no extracurricular activities and we won’t […]
Many of my fellow international classmates at Harvard are very worried about their immigration status in light of the Department of Homeland Security’s new rule that requires international students with F-1 visas attending schools with all online classes (such as Harvard) to leave the U.S. or transfer to a school with some […]
The Trump administration has thrown colleges and universities across the country into confusion this week with the unexpected announcement that international students will have to leave the U.S. if their school does not offer in-person classes during the upcoming semester. In a press release Monday afternoon, U.S. Immigration and Customs […]
The Trump administration announced international students will have to leave the USA, or face possible deportation, if the college or university they attend switches to online-only classes in the fall because of the coronavirus pandemic. Similarly, international students enrolled in colleges or universities offering only online courses this fall will be barred from […]