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Chinese student numbers at Harvard rise despite Trump visa crackdown

Enrolment at Harvard for Chinese students rose in the autumn from a year earlier, even as the Donald Trump administration moved to rein in visas for them and limit foreign enrolment and funding at the...

Jan 13South China Morning PosteducationImpact

House of MAGA: As Trump seeks to fortify constituency, is he 'losing the rest of America'?

Delano D'Souza welcomes Todd Belt, Professor and Director of the Political Management Program at George Washington University's Graduate School of Political Management. In the wake of Alex Pretty’s ki...

9hFrance 24PoliticsImpact

The Unix Pipe Card Game

Article URL: https://punkx.org/unix-pipe-game/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46694124 Points: 6 # Comments: 1...

6dHacker NewsTechnologyImpact

The number of foreign students enrolling in US universities has dropped for the first time in 3 years

The number of foreign students enrolling in US universities has declined Eduard Figueres/Getty Images Graduate international student enrollment in US colleges fell by 5.9% in fall 2025. The drop comes...

Jan 15Business InsidereducationImpact

Junior Developers in the Age of AI

Article URL: https://thoughtfuleng.substack.com/p/junior-developers-in-the-age-of-ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46617456 Points: 4 # Comments: 0...

Jan 14Hacker NewsTechnologyImpact

Academic innovation can help budding entrepreneurs overcome future challenges

As globalisation and technological advancements continue to reshape the way we live and work, educational institutions must also evolve to help equip students with the right mindset and skills to tack...

6dSouth China Morning PosteducationImpact

Giving University Exams in the Age of Chatbots

Article URL: https://ploum.net/2026-01-19-exam-with-chatbots.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46688954 Points: 3 # Comments: 0...

6dHacker NewsTechnologyImpact

Move between worlds: A brighter future unfolds at the intersections

[The content of this article has been produced by our advertising partner.] We’ve never lived more interconnected lives — or felt more divided. Separated by belief, culture, and access, we turn inward...

3dSouth China Morning PosteducationImpact

A university got itself banned from the Linux kernel (2021)

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/30/22410164/linux-kernel-university-of-minnesota-banned-open-source Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46605950 Points: 7 # Comments: 1...

Jan 13Hacker NewsTechnologyImpact

Nigeria reopens some schools in the north despite kidnap threats

Schools across parts ​of northern Nigeria started reopening on January 12, after months of closure triggered ⁠by the abduction of hundreds of students in November 2025. The move follows a circular fro...

Jan 13France 24education

Rural areas have darker skies but fewer resources for students interested in astronomy – telescopes in schools can help

Helping young people tap into their excitement about the night sky helps them build confidence and opens career pathways they may not have considered before....

1dSpace.comeducation

Show HN: I modeled personal success as a control system with Bayesian priors

I am a student and co-founder of an accessibility startup. Balancing product development with exams broke my workflow, so I looked for a debugger. Mathematica Successūs is my attempt to model the "Sel...

Jan 15Hacker NewsTechnologyImpact

Google co-founder reveals that "many" of the new hires do not have a degree

Article URL: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/google-cofounder-reveals-tons-recent-231500103.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46695747 Points: 9 # Comments: 2...

6dHacker NewsTechnologyImpact

Half of all Sudanese children not in education due to civil war

In tonight's edition, an unspoken crisis emerges in Sudan, as the country faces one of the world's longest school closures. Also, South Africa’s iconic Kruger National Park reels from devastating floo...

4dFrance 24world_newsImpact

WATCH: Single mom tells David Muir about moment high school students surprise her with car

For the past 8 years at Louisa County High School in Mineral, Virginia, students have been using skills learned in their auto tech class to refurbish cars – and donate them to single mothers in need....

Jan 13ABC Newssociety

Appeal trial for men convicted of 2020 beheading of teacher Samuel Paty opens in France

In December 2024, seven men and one woman were found guilty of contributing to the climate of hatred that led to the beheading of the history and geography teacher in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine....

7hEuronewseducationImpact

40% of Kids Can't Read and Teachers Are Quitting [video]

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTugyu2F0pc Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46677685 Points: 4 # Comments: 0...

Jan 19Hacker NewseducationImpact

A Song for My Land: Children highlight pesticide use in Argentina

A teacher and his students in rural Argentina use music to raise the alarm about the dangers of pesticide spraying....

4dAl Jazeeraenvironment

Tao Te Ching – Translated by Ursula K. Le Guin

Article URL: https://github.com/nrrb/tao-te-ching/blob/master/Ursula%20K%20Le%20Guin.md Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46745233 Points: 28 # Comments: 4...

2dHacker NewscultureImpact

Trump administration's response to Alex Pretti killing 'raises questions of principles vs hypocrisy'

Speaking with FRANCE 24's Mark Owen, David Schultz, Professor of Political Science at Hamline University, says that the Trump administration response to the killing of ICU nurse Alex Pretti during the...

5hFrance 24Politics
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