A federal judge ordered Columbia University student and activist Mahmoud Khalil to be released on bail after he has spent over three months in detention, US media reports. Mr Khalil became a symbol of the the Trump administration’s high-profile crackdown on universities and foreign students when US Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested him in New...
Daniel Sandford UK correspondent Reporting fromInner London Crown Court Police entered Zhenhao Zou’s London flat in January 2024 A Chinese PhD student who is “one of the most prolific predators” in the UK has been sentenced to life with a minimum term of 24 years. Zhenhao Zou, a Chinese national, drugged and raped three women...
Last week a grad student named Naomi Epps Best came forward to describe how the curriculum at Santa Clara University where she is pursuing a masters in Marriage and Family Counseling had been taken over by critical theory. Her story was published by the Wall Street Journal. I’m a graduate student in marriage and family...
Guy Delauney BBC Balkans correspondent Srdjan Stevanovic/Getty Images Festival organisers say their support for student protests has led to funding being pulled One of Europe’s largest music festivals is pulling out of Serbia with organisers blaming “undemocratic pressures”. Exit festival will hold its 25th anniversary edition in the country between 10 and 13 July, but...
Bhargava Parikh BBC Gujarati Thomas Mackintosh BBC News Bhumi Chauhan Bhoomi Chauhan says she missed her flight to London after arriving late at Ahmedabad airport Bhoomi Chauhan remembers being angry and frustrated. Bumper-to-bumper traffic had delayed her car journey to Ahmedabad airport – so much so that she missed her Air India flight to London...
Donald Trump has suspended for an initial six months the entry of foreign students seeking to study or participate in exchange programmes at Harvard University. The US president issued the proclamation on Wednesday, citing “national security” concerns and declaring it “detrimental” to US interests to continue allowing foreign students at the institution. Harvard has responded...
Federal agents detained 18-year-old Marcelo Gomes Da Silva while he was on his way to volleyball practice. The arrest of 18-year-old Marcelo Gomes Da Silva by federal immigration agents sparked outrage in the town of Milford, Massachusetts over the weekend, with community members rallying on Sunday to demand the high school student’s immediate release after...
Brandon Drenon BBC News, Washington DC Bloomberg via Getty Images On Tuesday, Harvard University students held a protest in support of international students US President Donald Trump’s administration has ordered embassies to stop scheduling appointments for student visas as it prepares to expand social media vetting of such applicants. In a copy of a memo...
Universities and colleges across the country can thank Harvard for this latest development. If federal courts won’t allow the Department of Homeland Security to deal directly with Harvard on compliance for the Student Education Visa Program (SEVP), the administration can simply make it more difficult for everyone instead. That seems to be the case today,...
Rubio pointed to Trump’s supposed “antisemitism” orders in a cable announcing upcoming guidance. The Trump administration has put a pause on new student visa application interviews as it prepares to expand its surveillance of the social media activity of those seeking to study in the U.S., Politico reports, in the latest instance of the administration’s...
A college in Beijing has found itself at the centre of public fury after it allegedly asked a student to prove she was on her period to qualify for sick leave. A viral video, filmed inside what appears to be a clinic and posted to social media this month, shows a young woman asking an...
Here’s an economics lesson that belongs in the textbooks. Student loan debt soared to more than $1.5 trillion during the Biden presidency, and the response by Washington was to “forgive” hundreds of billions of these unpaid loans by deadbeat borrowers and let the taxpayers pick up the...
DHS said it targeted Harvard’s foreign students in a quest to “root out the evils of anti-Americanism.” A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s revocation of Harvard University’s ability to enroll foreign students, threatening the legal status of thousands of students, after the school sued to stop the ban. The administration’s ban is...
Getty Images Harvard is suing the Trump administration after it revoked the university’s ability to enrol international students, escalating a dispute between the White House and one of America’s most prestigious institutions. In the suit filed in Boston, the university called the administration’s actions a “blatant violation” of the law. It comes a day after...
In his first live interview since his release from ICE detention, Columbia University student and Palestinian activist Mohsen Mahdawi recounts the traumatic experience of his arrest and incarceration. Mahdawi, a green card holder who was born and raised in a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, was arrested in Vermont on April 14 when...