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British universities hosted 110 events featuring radical speakers in the last academic year, 2016/17, with the highest proportion taking place in London institutions, a report has found.

Many of Britain’s universities have been found to select overseas applicants over British students, with the large fees that can be charged to foreign applicants playing a part in the shift.

One of Britain’s oldest and most prestigious universities has bowed to pressure from the ‘Why is my curriculum white?’ campaign which protests the alleged “Eurocentrism” of history teaching.

TEL AVIV – Ahead of President Donald Trump’s visit to Saudi Arabia, a leading Jewish human rights organization revealed that one of the kingdom’s top universities offers a “hate-mongering” course on Jews.

JERUSALEM – The student movement of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party promotes the notion that the “blood of martyrs” will eventually lead to the creation of Palestine, erasing Israel in the process.

The University of Sussex has been slammed for suppressing right-wing points of view after hosting a seminar teaching students how to “deal with right-wing attitudes in the classroom”.

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana – Tulane University’s student government is requesting that students and professors add their preferred gender pronoun at the end of emails and during conversations on campus.

Colleges and universities across the country are allowing and encouraging their adult students to vent, cry and lament the election results.

TEL AVIV – Dozens of anti-Israel protesters stormed a pro-Israel event last week at London’s University College London (UCL) and were alleged to have assaulted two women, one of the victims claimed.

An Ole Miss student was arrested during the University’s football game against the University of Memphis Tigers where he was heckled for carrying the Mississippi State Flag.

In an apparent move to censor supporters of the Mississippi state flag, University of Mississippi officials confiscated signs and flags from attendees at the Ole Miss/Alabama football game.

Bristol University has unveiled a range of scholarships for what they identify as “refugees and asylum seekers”, allowing them to attend the Russell Group institution for free. The announcement comes as a record number of pupils across British VI forms and

In its latest attack on thriving Christian churches, China’s Communist party has issued an ultimatum to parents that if children do not stop attending church, they will be barred from attending college or entering the military.

Special snowflake undergraduates at Oxford University are campaigning to have their workload reduced. Some of them have to write as many as three essays a week. And this, apparently, is too much. Cat Jones, of the Oxford University Student Union, told the

UCLA shooting suspect Mainak Sarkar came to the United States on a foreign student visa in 2001 after graduating from a prestigious Indian technology university and was granted permanent legal status in the U.S. in 2014.

Hackers have forced printers in several German Universities to print anti-Semitic posters and messages. Multiple German universities including the University of Hamburg had their printers hacked on Wednesday. The individuals who apparently perpetrated the attack found gaps in the security of the

Students at a leading British university are using a “traumatic” incident – a banana with the words “monkey” and “n*gga” found on campus – to lobby for sweeping positive discrimination and a more left wing and “liberated curriculum”. Over a thousand students have now

A leading British university has put signs in their toilets, “designed for international students”, pleading with them not to stand or squat on the loos or leave their business on the floor. The signs appear on the University of Sheffield’s

The ‘feminist’ president of the Students’ Union at a top British university has defended an Islamic Society event where men and women were segregated by a 7-foot tall barrier, despite the practice being illegal on UK campuses. The Islamic society

A German law professor has found himself subject to smear tactics by students and fellow faculty after expressing a negative opinion on the migrant crisis. Legal scholar and University of Leipzig professor Thomas Raucher is currently embroiled in a fight

TEL AVIV – A Jewish math teacher at an Israeli university opened a class for the campus’ Arab cleaners to learn basic math. Shai Gol, who in addition to teaching is also completing his PhD at Bar Ilan University, decided

Tashfeen Malik, 29, the female jihadi who helped kill 14 Americans in the San Bernardino massacre, comes from a family tied to Islamist militants, and allegedly evolved into a terrorist after attending college in Pakistan.

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS–The Hyde Park campus of the University of Chicago was a ghost town Monday, as classes were canceled by the school after receiving a warning from the FBI over what they said was an online threat of gun violence.

An anti-racism rally planned at the University of Colorado, Boulder, to show solidarity with University of Missouri black activists was cancelled because the protest organizers are white. However, a check of one of the event planner’s Facebook page reveals that isn’t the case.

I am so fed up with all this BS. Who do you pajama boys and womyn’s studies majors and queer-theory professors think you’re kidding? It was a bad joke back in 1969 when some fool wrote a book called “The Student As Nigger,” and it’s even more preposterous now when a bunch of Ivy League pukes in New Haven have the gall to describe themselves as “marginalized students.” Shut the bleep up.

Jonathan Butler—the University of Missouri grad student who became the public face of the #ConcernedStudent1950 protests that forced the resignation of both the school’s president and chancellor—claimed several times that he was hit by a car carrying the president in early October during the school’s homecoming parade.

A self-proclaimed victory for women’s rights has been won by the University of St Andrews feminist society (FemSoc), after they forced a night in their Student’s Union to change its name from “P.U.L.L”, which they deemed “sexist”, to the more

The Scottish National Party is threatening to undermine the independence of Scotland’s universities, according to a group led by the University of St Andrews. The universities claim their academic independence it under threat because the SNP wants to “bring politicians

A smartphone app that permits users to post messages anonymously is causing some colleges to ban it from their schools’ wireless networks because some racist comments have been posted.

Eighty percent of UK Universities have failed to offer their students a free speech environment, according to a new rating system launched today. Spiked Magazine, which campaigns for Free Speech, asked senior academics with expertise in education to give every