A University of Arizona professor was shot and killed on campus Wednesday by a former student, who has since been arrested. The shooting occurred inside the Harshbarger Building on the university's main campus in Tucson.

University of Arizona professor shot and killed by former graduate student

In a rather welcome move to make higher education accessible to all, New jersey's Princeton University earlier this week announced that students whose parents earn less than $100,000 per year will have to no longer pay any expenses to attend college.

Princeton University to be free for students whose families earn less than $100,000

Every day, we wake up to news of yet another forest fire, or photographs of glaciers melting. Temperatures this summer is unusually high owing to global warming.

Universities should take the lead in creating climate change warriors

In the latest racist attack in South African University, a student urinated in a Black student's room sparking unrest. Students are now demanding an enquiry.

Racist attack in South African University: Student urinates in Black student's room

A blast rocked the Karachi University area and claimed four lives including that of Chinese nationals. The authorities are investigating the incident and have not ruled out terrorism angle.

Pakistan: Three Chinese nationals among Four killed in Karachi University blast

Three Chinese nationals killed in the blast that rocked Karachi University in Pakistan

A blast rocked the Karachi University area and claimed four lives. The authorities are investigating the incident and have not ruled out terrorism angle.

Four people killed in the blast at Karachi University, Terrorism angle not ruled out

Police in Islamabad have registered a sedition case against Member of National Assembly (MNA) Mohsin Dawar and human rights activist Imaan Mazari as well as several students who participated in a protest against racial profiling and surveilling of Baloch students at a university in the Pakistani capital, Friday Times reported.

Baloch students at Islamabad university stage protests against harassment

A university student was reportedly arrested earlier this month for teaching Tibetians in Chamdo and is reported to have not been seen afterwards, according to Tibet Watch.

University student detained for teaching Tibetan amid Chinese restrictions

The University of California said on Tuesday that it will pay compensation of nearly quarter of a billion dollars to 200 women who alleged sexual assault by a school gynaecologist.

US University to pay nearly quarter billion dollars over gynaecologist sexual assault claim

Public universities in Afghanistan opened for the first time on Wednesday (February 2) since the Taliban took power last year. Female students were seen heading back to campus just as the male students.

Female students seen going to classes as Afghan universities reopen

A UK lecturer who claimed that she was axed for having a loud voice has been awarded more than £100,000 after winning a claim for unfair dismissal. Dr Annette Plaut, 60, who was teaching at the University of Exeter’s physics department for 30 years, claimed that a combination of her being female and loud led to her dismissal from the university, according to BBC.

UK lecturer who was sacked for having ‘loud voice' awarded more than £100,000 by court

After Kyle Rittenhouse's acquittal on all charges, a state university in Massachusetts, US seems to have offered students to attend racially segregated "processing spaces" but mistakenly distorted some facts in the case in the communication.

After Rittenhouse trial, US university distorts facts, but offers race-segregated safe spaces to share views

Defending its student union's decision, a university in Britain said the training to students working in the adult sex work industry planned by the group is aimed at educating people about sex work and how to respond sensitively when someone discloses about the work in the industry.

UK university defends its student union's decision to offer sex work training

Gunmen abducted four staff members and their children from University of Abuja on Tuesday. Attack on a large institution in Nigerian capital is a rare occurence in the country.

Nigeria: Gunmen abduct staff, children in rare attack on a university

Coffee for some is the difference between a day half won and the battle lost at the outset. As its warm embrace cradles you out of your slumber each morning, you forget your worries for a little while, making you well-prepared for hammering life gives you afterwards.

University of Florence to offer masters degree in coffee

No gunshots have been heard since the Taliban took control of Kabul but the situation is precarious and getting more so with each passing hour, say four Indian teachers in war-ravaged Afghanistan, appealing for immediate evacuation so they can return to their families back home.

Hope govt will ensure our immediate evacuation: Indian teachers stranded at Kabul varsity

Universities in Kabul wore a deserted look on the first day of Afghan school year on Monday. Professors and students are still trying to decide what to make of Taliban's new rules.

Afghan universities wear deserted look as Taliban impose fresh rules

The Taliban’s acting higher education minister on Sunday imposed a ban on co-education classes in Afghanistan, saying that “the women will be allowed to study in university, but they won’t be sitting in the same classroom with the men.

Taliban 2.0: Women allowed to study, but ban on co-education classes in Afghanistan

In China, a well-known university seems to have asked its colleges to prepare lists of LGBTQ+ students and report on their “state of mind”, said an internal directive, which was published online on social media platforms.

For ‘investigation’, university asks for LGBTQ+ students’ lists in China

An internal communique issued by China’s Shanghai University has raised eyebrows of many after it ordered its colleges to report students who identify as LGBTQ+ or “non-heterosexual”.

Chinese university asks colleges to compile list of LGTBQ+ students, stokes fears of ‘crackdown’

German police are probing an attempted murder after member of university showed symptoms of poisoning. Darmstadt's Chief Prosecutor Robert Hartmann said that investigation was based on the fact that a substance was found in several foods which can be harmful and even lethal.

German police probe attempted murder after poisoning attack at university

Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán seems to have given his opponents a chance to hurt his political fortunes in the future over plans for a Chinese university campus in Budapest.

Plans for a Chinese university spark outrage in Hungary 

The Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, is the world's top research university as per the citations per faculty indicator, while the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, is ranked 41st in the category, according to the coveted QS World University Rankings released on Wednesday.

QS World University Rankings: 3 Indian institutes in top 200; IISc top research university

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