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"China’s intelligence service used a front company to pay grants to British universities and steal crucial research about technology projects, MI5 said on Wednesday in a rare public espionage warning."
#HigherEd #edusky #university
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How Trump’s Pocket Rescissions Could Affect Higher Ed

The administration is defunding one program that supported instruction for “critical languages,” and experts worry the move could undermine national security. https://bit.ly/3VXNBlI

#EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd

Federal borrowers in default can now apply online to rehabilitate or consolidate their loans through the new Defaulted Loans Support Center on StudentAid. It replaces a phone-and-mail process that has run for decades. What changed and what didn't: #StudentLoans #HigherEd

Universities should rethink bans on working with academics in Israel and Russia as growing isolationism is increasingly holding back scientific progress, a university president has argued. @jgro-the.bsky.social reports from #theWAS #highered #collaborations #isolationism
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Career Advice | 5 Lessons Learned in 5 Years Out of Academia

Life and work on the other side might be quite different than you think. By Katherine Ann Wiley: https://bit.ly/3VkIagA

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Ken Griffin pledges higher education’s biggest-ever gift: $3 billion to Carnegie Mellon University. #HigherEd #AcademicSky www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

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Read a collection of #DEIA news items from across higher education to help Toward Inclusive Excellence readers stay up to date on the latest happenings in September 2026. ow.ly/qLI350ZT2MQ #Highered

There can be ‘no science above politics’ when science is ‘under attack’, the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine says a day after it was struck by a Russian drone. Seher Asaf reports #highered #Ukraine
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Higher tuition fees at Russell Group universities could “destroy” the UK’s “incredible” higher education system, a vice-chancellor has warned. @jgro-the.bsky.social reports from #theWAS #highered #tuitionfees
https://ow.ly/FUSA50ZT1ye

University of Michigan puts a hold on freshman grading pilot. #HigherEd #AvademicSky www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

MIT’s new report nails the quiet crisis in higher ed: GenAI is eroding the social contract.
Instructors play detective, students feel isolated, and real learning—the "productive struggle"—is outsourced.
Augment, don’t automate.

🔗 aiandeducation.mit.edu/report/

#HigherEd #GenAI #AI #MIT

The number of students taking UK courses abroad has surpassed the number of international students studying in the country for the first time, new figures reveal. Juliette Rowsell reports #highered #TNE #edusky
https://ow.ly/rsPa50ZSYAk

“No one goes into academia to drive a Ferrari or live in a mansion. They do it because they love it. They don’t want to be striking. They just want a little bit of job security,”
--- Theo Warshaw, Edinburgh University
#HigherEd #teaching #student #strike #cuts
www.theguardian.com/education/20...

University job scams are spreading through .edu account takeover. Proofpoint shows how fraudsters phish logins, then send fake jobs and bogus checks.

#UniversityJobScams #EduAccountTakeover #JobScam #AdvanceFeeFraud #Phishing #HigherEd #Proofpoint #CyberSecurity

The Russell Group’s call to introduce a tiered tuition fee system are “a disaster” that risks leaving the rest of the UK sector behind, a scholar has warned. Rosalind Skillen reports #highered #tuitionfees #edusky
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