United Kingdom At least 770 students test positive for COVID-19 at UK university At least 770 Northumbria University students tested positive for COVID-19 of which at least 78 are symptomatic. 02/10/2020
Hungary Hungarian students blockade university in protest against Orban reform Students in Hungary are blockading the main entrance of a university over a government reform that has already seen the establishment's management resign in protest. 04/09/2020
United Kingdom Britain scraps algorithm for student exam grades after outcry Education officials say the results will be based on teachers' predictions after students complained their grades had been unfairly reduced 17/08/2020
Life University course helps students face climate crisis with hope It's easy to feel anxious about the state of the environment but this course is fighting that feeling with education. 28/05/2020
no comment Hong Kong protesters turn university campuses into fortresses They built concrete walls and watchtowers and had weapons that included bows and arrows, catapults and hundreds of petrol bombs. 15/11/2019
United Kingdom Could a fourth Brexit extension could follow a General Election? A European law expert from Cambridge University says a fourth Brexit extension could follow a UK election. Professor Kenneth Armstrong's comments to Euronews' Good Morning Europe came as an anticipated third extension to the process for the UK was being discussed by the European Union. 28/10/2019
Bangladesh Bangladesh MP 'hired lookalikes' to take university exams Bangladesh MP was expelled from university after a private broadcaster reportedly uncovered she had hired lookalikes to take her exams. 22/10/2019
United Kingdom First British female medical students get degrees 150 years later The "Edinburgh Seven" enrolled at university in 1869 but were prevented from graduating and qualifying as doctors after pressure and discrimination from their male peers. 06/07/2019
USA Dozens of migrants disembark in Malta after days stranded at sea Malta allowed their rescue ship to dock after Germany, France, Portugal and Luxembourg agreed to take the 64 migrants in. 13/04/2019
Russia St Petersburg university building collapses, around 24 trapped St Petersburg university building collapses, around 24 trapped 16/02/2019