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Cinema

Historic Oxford cinema at risk of shutting doors due to lease woes

The Ultimate Picture Palace in Oxford, UK, requires a lease extension past 2037 to be able to carry out key renovations and make the most of grants for energy efficiency and accessibility.

8 May 2026

Work

The Danish island that lets students shed stress and study in nature

The "Youth Island" is a 30-minute boat ride from Copenhagen and offers a retreat for students who are struggling to disconnect from distractions in the city.

27 May 2025

Tech News

Meet Flynn, the first AI in the world enrolled as a university student

The arts university in Vienna says the AI will attend classes, receive critiques, and get grades alongside human students.

2 April 2025

Culture news

Tick-tock: Nearly 100-year-old Cambridge College prank (half) resolved

Better late than never. The hour hand of a chapel clock that was taken in a student prank during the 1930s has been returned to a Cambridge college. The perpetrators of the prank were not known until now. Only the minute hand remains elusive...

31 March 2025

Lifestyle

Know your Swift! Class announced for parents needing to keep up

A Scottish college is offering a course on Taylor Swift to educate parents accompanying children to the singer's sold-out The Eras Tour. They'll become Swifties in no time.

2 May 2024

Partner content

How Dubai is attracting students from around the world

Partner content presented by Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing Dubai

With more than 60 international university campuses and colleges, Dubai has attracted 60,000 multicultural students and the figure is growing

27 December 2022

USA

Trump administration rescinds rule on foreign student visas

The Trump administration rescinded on a policy that would have stripped international students of their visas if their schools held classes entirely online because of the pandemic.

14 July 2020

Earth News

WATCH | Protesting fast fashion almost made me fail my master's

Laura Karup made the bold decision not to present a final collection for her Masters of Fashion.

2 November 2019

USA

Desperate Housewives star gets jail over college cheating scandal

The actress pleaded guilty in May to paying $15,000 to have her daughter's SAT scores boosted.

13 September 2019

USA

Spanish amateur golfer found dead in Iowa

Celia Barquin, 22, murdered in broad daylight while practising alone on a golf course in Iowa. Colin Daniel Richards, now charged with first-degree murder, had been living in the woods near the golf course.

19 September 2018

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Demonstrators clash with police in Chile over for-profit school ruling

Police clashed with student protesters in the streets of Santiago on Tuesday after a constitutional court overturned a law that would have banned universities operating for profit.

28 March 2018