A proposal in the House would cut the maximum Pell Grant award by $1,500 and remove eligibility for part-time students. Support justice-driven, accurate and transparent news — make a quick donation to Truthout today! Nearly half a million Texas students stand to get less help paying for college because of aggressive cuts federal lawmakers are...
Jamie Morris BBC News Reporting fromEastleigh, Hampshire PA Media The bus crashed through railings and landed upright in the River Itchen Two people have been seriously injured after a double-decker bus carrying college students “careered” into a river. The 607 for Barton Peveril Sixth Form College left the carriageway and plunged into the water off...
Support justice-driven, accurate and transparent news — make a quick donation to Truthout today! This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. When immigration agents raided a fast-fashion warehouse a mile from Santee Education Complex in Los Angeles earlier this month, the tension in the school was palpable. That...
Joshua Smith Joshua Smith was given the Nigel Queree Environment Award Two students studying for doctorates have been awarded grants for their natural history work. Societe Jersiaise has given the Nigel Queree Environment Award for 2025 to Joshua Smith for his project assessing grazing practices. The study group gave the Roderick Dobson Award to Rees...
Truthout is an indispensable resource for activists, movement leaders and workers everywhere. Please make this work possible with a quick donation. After reports of student arrests and detainments, an international student at Nashville, Tennessee’s Belmont University, canceled his flight home to India. A thousand miles away in Boston, a foreign medical resident called off his...
Getty Images Students should be ready to be shocked and offended at university, according to the man in charge of ensuring free speech on campuses. Arif Ahmed, from the Office for Students (OfS), which regulates universities, told the BBC that exposure to views which students might find offensive was “part of the process of education”....
An investigation by the Guardian found that UK college students have been caught cheating using AI at much higher rates than in the past. There are thousands of known cases and it’s possible these are just the tip of the iceberg. A survey of academic integrity violations found almost 7,000 proven cases of cheating using...
Tributes have been paid to two women who died after being pulled from the water at one of Wales’ national parks. Hajra Zahid, 29, and Haleema Zahid, 25, were found in pools on the Watkin Path – which leads to the summit of Yr Wyddfa – also known as Snowdon – on 11 June. University...
Videos from social media show the moment loud gunshots were heard in a classroom, during a deadly school shooting in Graz, Austria. Footage shows people panicking and looking outside through a window, as gunshots ring out in the background. Other footage shows armed police officers inside school corridors as pupils run towards the exit. Six...
This article is an excerpt from Teach Truth: The Struggle for Antiracist Education, by Jesse Hagopian, Copyright © 2025. This text was originally published by Haymarket Books and has been reprinted here with permission. “Our students demand to learn the truth even if a small group of powerful, mostly wealthy, white adults is threatened by...
Again? Still? Where did my Harvard scorecard go, anyway? In our last exciting episode of All Your Indoctrinated Children, Harvard had successfully, if temporarily, parried a move by the Department of Homeland Security to decertify the school from the Student Education Visa Program (SEVP). Even that success was limited, however, by the State Department’s decision...
Protests over ICE raids are continuing across the United States as agents arrest immigrants at courthouses, from their workplaces, on the way to school and more. Immigration and human rights advocate Adriana Jasso with Unión del Barrio describes protests that met a massive raid in San Diego at a popular restaurant, the targeting of farmworkers,...
A Chinese Harvard graduate’s speech calling for unity in a divided world, delivered days after the US vowed to “aggressively” revoke Chinese students’ visas, has sparked mixed reactions in the US and her home country. “We don’t rise by proving each other wrong. We rise by refusing to let one another go,” Jiang Yurong said...
Students could face subject “cold spots” if universities are not allowed to work together more to deliver courses, according to a new report. The review by Universities UK, which represents 141 institutions, found universities were reluctant to collaborate because of concerns around breaking business laws designed to promote healthy competition between them. The Competition and...
The University of Plymouth has collaborated with the RNLI, Swim England and Plymouth Active Leisure to teach students how to stay safe in the water. The RNLI held a young adult water safety programme in May teaching students how to call for help correctly and how to use a throwline. That was followed up by...