Education



Asia
Can India create its own Ivy League?
The country is home to around a fifth of the world’s university-age population. Why are they going abroad?

Business
Which universities will be hit hardest by Trump’s war on foreign students?
It’s not the Ivy League

Graphic detail
Can AI be trusted in schools?
A pilot programme in Nigeria helped students make two years’ worth of progress in six weeks

Leaders
Pausing foreign applications to American universities is a terrible idea
The Trump administration hobbles a great American export

Science & technology
Trump’s attack on science is growing fiercer and more indiscriminate
It started as a crackdown on DEI. Now all types of research are being cancelled

United States
America’s progressives should love standardised tests
New evidence in a long-running argument

Britain
The philosopher changing free speech in Britain
Arif Ahmed is forcing universities to behave better

Briefing
Why can’t stinking rich Ivies cope with losing a few hundred million?
Their huge endowments are not easy to cash in

Briefing
Donald Trump is battling America’s elite universities—and winning
The Ivy League sees little point in fighting the federal government in court

Leaders
MAGA’s remaking of universities could have dire consequences
For higher education, innovation, prosperity and freedom