IIT-Bombay students go on indefinite hunger strike against fee hike
Around 150 students of the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay (IIT-B) were on a relay hunger strike today to protest a hike in fees. The agitation began yesterday with a march…
DeVos Allows Career Programs to Delay Disclosure to Students
Two weeks after announcing a regulatory rewrite of the gainful employment rule for non-degree career education programs, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos announced late Friday that she was delaying key provisions of the…
‘Super 30’ founder Anand Kumar to soon start online coaching for Class 10 students
Asked about the report of a biopic likely to be filmed on Super 30, Anand said, Bollywood star Hrithik Roshan has shown interest to play the role in the proposed…
Students have trouble judging the credibility of information online, researchers find
When it comes to evaluating information that flows across social channels or pops up in a Google search, young and otherwise digital-savvy students can easily be duped, finds a new…
India: agencies predict 30% drop in students going to Aus due to bank back up
Implementation of the new policy and introducing new ₹500 and ₹2,000 bank notes into circulation has put a strain on banks resulting in delays in processing education bank loans for overseas study. The…
US HEIs tell int’l students: “You are welcome here”
Spearheaded by Temple University in Philadelphia, the campaign is backed by a number of US universities that have produced videos of faculty members, staff and students inviting international students to campus. The…
Rising fees for EU students, tougher controls could lose UK £2bn a year – study
The analysis, carried out by London Economics on behalf of the Higher Education Policy Institute and Kaplan International, looks at how the depreciation of the pound, changes to EU student fees and…
Mexican student’s musical talent wins video contest
Mariana Osorio’s video soundtrack, an original song about how she travelled from one of Mexico’s most dangerous and impoverished states to study art and music in New York, clinched the…
Speak to immigrant students like me before you ‘deprioritise’ them
I arrived in the UK from Nigeria with my family at the age of eight to join my dad who lived here. All through my schooling, my parents were trying…
Nova Scotia invites students to Study and Stay
The Stay in Nova Scotia and Study and Stay in Nova Scotia programmes will provide individual support to students who are interested in working in the province after graduation, including…