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Investors are increasing their bets that the Bank of Japan will need to keep raising borrowing costs as a weaker yen fuels inflation and puts pressure on the...

A philosopher faces defamation charges after condemning the use of the term “ethnic replacement” by a government minister. An Italian academic is facing criminal defamation charges after describing a government minister’s espousal of a white supremacist conspiracy as “neo-Hitlerite.” Donatella Di Cesare, professor of theoretical philosophy at the Sapienza University of Rome, told Times Higher Education that the lawsuit against her, one of several brought recently by members of Prime Mi...

As colleges turn to police to suppress pro-Palestinian demonstrators, some are calling for the National Guard. Experts say history should be a warning. At Emory University in Atlanta on Thursday, police tased pro-Palestinian protesters and targeted them with rubber bullets. A clash between Boston law enforcement and Emerson College students turned so violent that city sanitation workers were spotted cleaning blood from the cobblestone of a campus alleyway.

Amazon Web Services and Educause collaborate on a new assessment to evaluate higher-ed institutions' readiness for generative AI tools. Read to learn more.

YOU can always tell when it is the season where world university rankings are released. It is akin to when results of the professional licensure or bar exams come out. It sparks an orgy of festive self-congratulatory memes and posts turned viral by universities, their faculty, alumni and friends.

Biden administration's new labor rule raises minimum salary threshold, forcing colleges to provide pay raises or overtime to employees. Read to learn more.

To help ease homesickness, some colleges have adopted pet-friendly policies for students living on- and off-campus. Moving off to college doesn’t mean you have to leave the family dog behind, at least at some institutions. Starting this fall, students at Warren Wilson College in North Carolina can bring dogs, cats, rabbits, birds and more into the residence halls. Administrators hope the new policy not only addresses student health and wellness concerns, but also helps recruit animal-loving le...

Cyclicals and interest rate-sensitive areas of the market came under pressure in the middle of the week as longer-term Gilt yields continued moving higher.

The Missouri House will debate a bill proposing a performance-based funding model for higher education institutions, which aims to provide fair and sustainable support. Read to learn more.

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is using a $50 million donation to launch a new school focused on technology. The four-year public university announced Wednesday that it had received the multi-million dollar donation from alumnus Thomas Siebel, who now serves as the CEO of C3.ai, a publicly traded company focused on artificial intelligence (AI).