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Dutch students fight to keep COVID-19 out of shared houses

Dutch students have had to find ways to keep COVID-19 from spreading in their shared houses.

World News

Virus clusters at French universities a worry for returning students

At least a dozen COVID-19 clusters have emerged since French campuses and classrooms reopened this month.

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.

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

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World News

COVID-19 pandemic ruins European class of 2020's first job chances

Euronews spoke to recent graduates from across the bloc to see how they were managing to get a first foot on the ladder in their chosen careers in the midst of a global pandemic and economic crisis.

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The Trump administration rescinded on a policy that would have stripped international students of their visas if their schools held classes entirely online because of the pandemic.

United Kingdom

EU students will be charged more to study at UK universities from 2021

Up to now, EU nationals paid the same fees as British students and could get access to UK government loans.

Earth News

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.

World News

Italian scientists isolate DNA sequence of coronavirus

Scientists in Rome say they have isolated the DNA sequence of the coronavirus and will share the research worldwide to help combat the outbreak

Italy

University condemns professor's 'shameful' pro-Nazi tweets

The university rector had said the tweets were expressed in a "personal capacity" before releasing a revised statement denouncing the tweets.

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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.

France

French student sets himself alight in 'despair' at financial crisis

The student was in a “highly precarious financial situation, denied financial aid and desperate," student union Solidaires Etudiant-e-s Lyon said.

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.

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.

Earth News

Spanish university builds eco-campus for students to learn outside

The University of Malaga partners with Ecosistema Urbano to design open, outside classrooms for students.

United Kingdom

Euroviews. As students return to universities, it’s time we talked candidly about rape ǀ View

As universities across Europe prepare open their doors for a new term, student Cara Balen warns of the danger of not recognising the importance of sexual consent on campus and beyond.

Greece

Greece scraps university sanctuary law banning police from campuses

Greece has scrapped a law that made universities a no-go zone for police — a move critics have blasted as a clampdown on democracy.

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.

United Kingdom

Brexit clouds European students' British dream

Brexit, which is now scheduled for October 31, could lead EU citizens studying in the UK to pay international fees and lose their access to financial support.

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.