A newly appointed Taliban chancellor of Kabul University announced that women will not be allowed to study or teach at the educational institution, a move that critics deemed as the Islamic fundamentalist group’s latest encroachment on women’s rights after seizing …
A gunman has reportedly killed eight people and wounded dozens more after opening fire at the Perm State University in Siberia. “At about 11 o’clock, an unknown person entered the Perm University campus with a traumatic weapon and opened fire …
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 …
Eighteen members of a now-dissolved fraternity at an elite Belgian university will go on trial over the death of a Black student during a hazing ritual in 2018, prosecutors said on Aug. 5. A Limburg prosecutors office spokesperson told reporters …
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 …