The Guardian - Higher Education

AUGUST 10, 2024

Committee rejects student denaming proposal despite role of Sackler-owned Purdue Pharma in US opioid epidemic Harvard University has decided that it will not remove the name of the Sackler family from two of its buildings, despite years of protests from families of opioid overdose victims and anti-opioid groups. In its recent denaming proposal update, a Harvard review committee rebuffed a 23-page proposal filed in October 2022 by Harvard College Overdose Prevention and Education Students to dena

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Higher Education Inquirer

AUGUST 10, 2024

The collapse of 2U and its subsidiary edX has put Sallie Mae (SLM) on the radar. Many of those elite brand certificate programs (under the name Harvard, MIT, Cal Berkeley) were propped up by Sallie Mae private student loans. When the adult learners who took these certificate courses from edX did not get better jobs that they were promised, some ended up struggling to pay their loans.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

AUGUST 10, 2024

As international intake dwindles, leading institutions become less cautious about offers post-Covid School leavers collecting their A-level results on Thursday will have an easier time getting into their chosen university than their predecessors in the past two years, experts are predicting. A record number of 18-year-olds are competing for university places this year, but experts said that many universities hope to fill accommodation and lecture theatres with more UK students, due to anxiety ab

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