Education

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…

They say Einstein’s genius arrived in flashes, but few mention the stillness that came before the spark—the quiet rituals he built to let his mind wander without losing its way. Picture this: A dim afternoon room, books stacked like small fortresses, sunlight folding in through a narrow window. Einstein sits in an armchair, a spoon…

For years, the post-pandemic corporate playbook was simple: Hold on to your workers at all costs. In boardrooms across America, the phrase “labour hoarding” became shorthand for survival. After the chaos of 2020, executives learned a bitter truth: When workers walk out, they rarely walk back in. That mindset shaped a rare era of corporate…

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…

The University of Pennsylvania is investigating a deeply offensive email that appeared to originate from its Graduate School of Education as reported by Fox News. Sent on Friday morning, the message used official university letterhead and bore the subject line “We got hacked,” alarming faculty, alumni, and students alike. Laden with racial slurs and vulgarities,…

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,…

The paychecks that once symbolised India’s ascent as a global technology hub are shrinking, sharply. According to a joint report by payroll and compliance platform Deel and equity management firm Carta, median compensation for engineering and data roles in India has nosedived by 40%, plunging to $22,000 in 2025 from $36,000 a year earlier. In…