FBI accuses dozens in elite university admissions bribery case False claims of sporting and academic abilities used to enter colleges including Yale and Stanford, say investigators By Paul Basken 12 March
Canada-based professor among victims of Ethiopian Airlines crash Pius Adesanmi was founder of Carleton University’s Institute of African Studies By Paul Basken 12 March
Trump’s annual assault on education funding looms larger After twice ignoring presidential pleas to slash higher education budget, Congress now seems less able to resist By Paul Basken 12 March
Virtual exchanges promise study-abroad experience for the masses Technology now enabling rapid expansion of the worldwide sharing of classrooms By Paul Basken 12 March
White House asks universities for advice on foreign students Unusual invitation by top administration officials suggests corporate pressure on Trump over immigrants By Paul Basken 11 March
?1.3 billion Turnitin sale spotlights intellectual property fears Huge price tag demonstrates power of plagiarism-checking company By Anna McKie 11 March
Trump free speech threat contradicts facts, allies and himself US president’s vow to tie research funds to unfettered campus debate is short on details and advocates By Paul Basken 9 March
The agony of microaggression and discrimination knocked me out A student’s mysterious accusation of racism saw P. K. Newby removed from her course – and another woman lost from the leaky pipeline By PK Newby 7 March
Chicago president: Trump’s free speech order would be a ‘grave error’ Robert Zimmer explains why the US president’s threat to deny federal funds to colleges that fail to protect free speech is a bad idea By Robert Zimmer 6 March
US-UK alliance to share ‘experiments’ on research commercialisation New group of eight universities, joined by MIT and Stanford, sees lack of private investment in ‘niche’ university research as a key barrier By Rachael Pells 5 March
Virtual reality technology ‘does not improve learning outcomes’ But research finds students prefer the mode over more traditional teaching methods By Ellie Bothwell 4 March
Trump pledges executive order on campus free speech President issues threat to universities’ federal funding in major speech By Scott Jaschik for Inside Higher Ed 4 March