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University of Manchester students ripped down “prison-like” metal barriers erected around their dormitories to enforce social distancing, as England went into full lockdown on Thursday. 

A British university had told its students self-isolating on campus with coronavirus that if a fire breaks out, they should wait in their rooms before evacuating to allow other healthy people to leave.

Known as the “dirtiest man on television,” Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs and Deadliest Catch fame joined Breitbart News Sunday this weekend on SiriusXM Patriot Channel 125 to discuss his new show Returning the Favor and combating stigmas around blue collar work.

Wuhan University in China’s Hubei province went on a crusade against foreign students Monday, expelling an unprecedented 92 of them from ten different countries. The university, which boasts about 3,300 international students, has previously expelled one or two of them per year at most.

A study has found that a majority of conservative students feel unable to express their political opinions at university.

The two-week police siege of Hong Kong’s Polytechnic University ended on Thursday as police entered the campus after a hundred-member search party of university staffers determined there were no protesters remaining inside.

Hundreds of Hong Kong residents took to the streets on Monday to demand freedom for dozens of protesters who remain trapped on the campus of Polytechnic University by a ten-day police siege.

The University and College Union (UCU) has declared that anyone can “self-identify” as “black, disabled, LGBT+ or women”.

Students at Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) wore masks, shouted protest slogans, and waved banners before and during graduation ceremonies on Thursday.

Students at the University of Florida are planning to protest Donald Trump Jr. and Kimberly Guilfoyle’s appearance at the school on Thursday, dubbing the protest #ChompTrump.

India on Thursday announced new restrictions on universities seeking to cooperate with Chinese institutions. The order came down only a week before Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to meet with Chinese Communist Party chief Xi Jinping.

Thousands of secondary school and college students in Hong Kong announced they would skip classes on Monday, the first day of the new school year, essentially staging a “strike” and adding their numbers to ongoing protests.

Friends of murdered Ole Miss student Ally Kostial are claiming she was pregnant with her alleged killer’s child when he shot her on July 20. 

A review board in Virginia has begun the process of shutting down a suspected “visa-mill” college that may have improperly trafficked thousands of low-wage foreign graduates into Americans’ white-collar jobs. 

A British teenager claims he has been suspended from university for describing halal slaughter as “inhumane” and saying immigrants should not be allowed to use the National Health Service (NHS) for free, and cannot return unless he signs a conduct agreement and undertakes diversity training. 

Suits actress Meghan Markle – known these days as the Duchess of Sussex – has chosen to treat us all to her thoughts on British higher education.

Universities around the globe introduced hundreds of free online courses in 2018.

An elected student leader has demanded a mural commemorating students who died fighting in the Frist World War is destroyed, berating the fact those depicted are “white men.”

China’s Hunan City University expelled engineering student Wang Dong last week after posting “unpatriotic” comments on social media, the Communist Party Committee Propaganda Department said in a statement on Sunday.

Days after calls for professors to be taught about ‘white privilege’, new data has revealed ethnic minority students are now the majority at 23 UK universities.

Transgender activists and academics have been coordinating attacks aimed at silencing critics of their gender ideology by accusing them of “hate crimes” and endangering students.

James talks with author David Craig about why it is a bad idea for parents to send their children to get a college education.

A University of Utah grad assistant lost her teaching position after including anti-Second Amendment language in her syllabus and warning that students who legally carried concealed would be made to stand in a 3′ by 3′ square in the back of the room.

Congratulations to all the kids who did well in their A Levels today. Now do yourselves a favour: don’t waste your time going to university.

Older, white, male professors are to be targeted for politically correct training at a leading UK university and given “reverse mentors” to lecture them on so-called “unconscious bias”.

Florida’s Palm Beach Atlantic University lacrosse coach sent text messages to one of his players warning him that he had to choose between posting online photos of firearms or playing lacrosse.

A high-ranking UK university has been slammed for promoting “segregation” after offering accommodation for “LGBT plus” students that bans straight people.

Students want to see universities take tougher action against drugs on campus, with a large majority believing that recreational drug-taking has harmful effects on both individuals and society as a whole, new research has found.

What do you say to a graduate with a first class degree in gender studies? If your answer was “I’ll have that with a large fries and a McFlurry and an extra large Coke, sweetheart,” I’d seriously question your judgement.

(THE TIMES) — More than half of students submitting fraudulent applications for degree courses are black, the university admissions body said yesterday.

A leading academic who said Brexit would dramatically reduce the British university sector’s standing in global rankings has admitted the claim was “plucked out of the air”.

Universities must stamp out the “institutional hostility” towards free speech that has taken root on campuses, the universities minister has demanded ahead of a free speech summit.

An Oxford college has apologised for causing “distress” to students after attempting to organise a cannabis-themed party, which was accused of “cultural appropriation”.

MPs and Peers have said that universities cannot be “safe spaces” from the free exchange of ideas, warning that university “red tape” and students’ attempts to shut down debate they oppose was leaving a “chilling effect” on free speech.

Violent, marked ‘anti-fascists’ have stormed a free speech event at a leading London university, sparking fistfights and scuffles in their attempt to silence visiting speakers.

A Labour peer and university boss has said her institution is “decolonizing” it’s curriculum, that student should skip educational events that offend them, and that counter-terror laws silence Muslim and black students.