California’s community colleges are facing a peculiar crisis that involves fraud, and identity theft. Beneath the surface of the state’s vast higher education system, thousands of so-called “ghost students” have allegedly enrolled in classes, occupied limited seats, and in many cases, collected financial aid meant for genuine learners. According to OpenTheBooks, a watchdog organisation that…
Stanford ends diversity fellowship citing US Supreme Court affirmative action ruling Stanford University will discontinue its long-running Diversifying Academia, Recruiting Excellence (DARE) Doctoral Fellowship Programme by the end of this year. The decision, which comes amid University-wide budget cuts and changes in federal policy, marks the end of a 17-year initiative aimed at increasing diversity…
The University of Wisconsin–Madison is confronting a storm of public attention after one of its senior administrators, Associate Dean Percival Matthews, made a series of statements describing President Donald Trump as a racist and co-authored an academic paper asserting that America’s education system, and even mathematics itself, are “inherently violent” toward Black students, according to…
Data has become the new currency of power, fueling boardroom decisions, transforming industries, and redefining what it means to be informed. Yet beneath the deluge of information lies a deeper challenge: How to make sense of it all. That task falls to a new class of professionals, data scientists, who convert the chaos of raw…
The chants outside Alberta’s high schools this week were not about exams or sports victories, they were about power, protest, and principle. On Thursday, thousands of students across Alberta walked out of classrooms, flooding streets in Calgary and Edmonton to condemn what they saw as a betrayal of democracy and education alike. Their anger was…
UCEED registration 2025: The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay has extended the registration deadline for the Undergraduate Common Entrance Examination for Design (UCEED) 2026. The new schedule offers candidates a longer window to apply, following an unprecedented surge in registrations this season. The official notification released on October 31 confirmed that candidates now have…
Once a ritual reserved for camaraderie and caffeine, the morning coffee run has now evolved into a statement of the times. The act of showing up, grabbing a cup, exchanging polite banter, and quietly exiting to work remotely has been christened with a new title, coffee badging. It’s a phenomenon that blends optics with autonomy,…
Who are the two Indian-American college dropouts behind Mercor’s $10B AI success. (Photo: LinkedIn @suryamidha Three 22-year-old entrepreneurs have made history by becoming the world’s youngest self-made billionaires, surpassing Mark Zuckerberg’s long-standing record. The trio founded Mercor, a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence recruitment startup, which recently reached a $10 billion valuation following a $350 million…
US job market 2025: WalletHub ranks best and worst states for job seekers. (AI Image) US job market 2025: Looking for a job in the US and wondering where your chances are actually good? It turns out not all states are created equal when it comes to landing that dream role—or even a decent paycheck….
2025 Layoffs Show Why AI Workflow Skills Trump Simple Reskilling. (Getty Images) The world’s biggest employers are back to cutting costs—and the deepest cuts came in September–October 2025. In tech alone, the global tracker Layoffs.fyi shows 112,732 people laid off across 218 companies in 2025. The names behind those cuts are the same companies students…