A college at Cambridge University handed over a looted bronze artifact to Nigeria on Oct. 27. The Jesus College Cambridge returned a statue of a cockerel known as “Okukur” during a ceremony to the Nigerian National Commission for Museums and …
Australia’s Curtin University on Wednesday has asked journal publisher Wiley Online Library to retract a controversial facial recognition study by an ex-faculty member to identify Uyghur and Tibetan minorities. Academic Wanquan Liu and co-authors at Chinese universities published the study …
The Taliban announced that women in Afghanistan will only be allowed to study in universities if the classrooms are gender-segregated. “We will not allow boys and girls to study together. We will not allow co-education,” Taliban’s Higher Education Minister Abdul …
A prominent Chinese university has directed its colleges to list their LGBTQ+ students and to report on their “state of mind,” according to a “Campus Survey” shared on social media. Shanghai University directed its colleges to “investigate [and] research” students …
German police on Aug. 24 launched an attempted murder investigation after seven people fell ill in a case of suspected poisoning at a university. Hesse state police set up a 40-member homicide squad under the name Licht (“light”) to investigate …
The Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore said on Monday that 38 students staying at Block 61 Hall 13 needed to get tested for COVID-19 immediately as wastewater samples collected at the block showed viral fragments. To facilitate the antigen …
Retail company Target is launching a new debt-free education assistance program for over 340,000 of its full-time and part-time employees in the United States. Target announced on Aug. 4 that it will pay the cost of tuition fees and textbooks …
A federal judge last July 19 refused to block Indiana University’s (IU) COVID-19 vaccination requirement after students filed a complaint that it breached their constitutional rights. U.S. District Judge Damon Leichty said in the ruling that the IU policy does …
Chinese pro-democracy students in Australia face surveillance and intimidation from the Chinese government and its supporters, Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported on June 30. In a 102-page report, HRW said that the Chinese government and its supporters have monitored and …
Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam has warned about possible foreign infiltration of local institutions, including universities. Lam was referring to a foreign study that 849 students from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology participated in during the …