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IIM Bangalore ran an experiment in which 78 MBA students built their own AI tools for a midterm, News18 reports. IIM Ahmedabad, ISB and IISER Pune are also trying different approaches instead of a blanket ban. The open-book exam has found a new book.
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The National Testing Agency has released a revised 2027 exam calendar, with new dates for UGC NET, JEE Main, AISSEE and other exams. The agency cited 'administrative reasons' and said the revised schedule supersedes the earlier one. It is on nta.ac.in. Candidates may wish to check it twice.
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MD General Medicine was the most chosen course among the top 501 NEET PG seat allotments, with 233 candidates, followed by Radiology with 149 and Dermatology with 37. The top five courses took 91.6% of those 501 seats, out of 28,723 allotments in all.
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The National Testing Agency has extended the last date for UGC NET December 2026 applications to 31 October, up to 11:50 pm, with no late fee. The fee payment deadline moves to the same date, according to a public notice dated 27 October.
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NBEMS has revised fee rules for All India Quota seats it allots. Candidates who pick the Float option to try for a better seat in the next round will not have to pay the first year course fee while they wait for that round's result.
Read more at News18 →IIM Lucknow has launched a two year MBA in Family Business for owners of established family enterprises and their next generation. Applications opened on 16 October and close on 31 December. The course covers strategy, governance and succession, which in family firms are often discussed at dinner.
Read more at The Indian Express →IGNOU has launched an Online Assignment Management System for its December 2026 Term End Examination. Students in distance and online programmes can submit assignments through their Samarth accounts by 20 November and get an online acknowledgement, the Ministry of Education said on 28 October.
Read more at The Indian Express →More than 100 Chinese students at the National University of Malaysia have been unable to graduate on schedule while it investigates suspected fake English proficiency certificates, Caixin reports. Most are in the business school's MBA programme. The university said it was reviewing admissions documents after complaints.
Read more at Caixin Global →IIM Calcutta says all of its 63rd MBA batch secured summer placements, with an average monthly stipend of Rs 1.93 lakh, its highest ever, and a median of Rs 2 lakh. A total of 475 students received 546 offers from 156 companies, and the season ended early.
Read more at The Indian Express →Maharashtra's Nanded district administration will provide free coaching for NEET, JEE and CET to 200 meritorious students from economically weaker rural families. Officials said the step aims to help students pursue higher education as drought affects 75% of the state's districts.
Read more at The Indian Express →Several IITs offer undergraduate BSc and BS programmes in AI, covering machine learning, data science, programming, deep learning and cybersecurity, News18 explains. Students can choose between on-campus engineering degrees, online undergraduate programmes and short certification courses, depending on eligibility and interest.
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The UK Budget says the graduate visa will stay at two years for people who graduate from 'high-compliance universities where there are strong labour market outcomes'. A cut to 18 months was due from January 2027. Compliance has become a selling point.
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An updated impact assessment says UK providers will lose £1,010m in fees in the first three years of the £925 per international student levy, more than the £900m forecast last year. The levy is also now expected to raise £1,340m, less than the £1,390m predicted.
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UK Home Office data for the year to September shows applications for sponsored study visas fell 19%, and those from dependants of international students fell 31%. Skilled Worker visa applications dropped 43%, The Financial Express reports.
Read more at The Financial Express →International students heading to London will need to show £14,130 for nine months of living costs, up from £13,761, from 30 November. Outside London the figure rises to £10,827, excluding tuition fees, Business Insider Africa reports.
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International students who started UK courses in 2024-25 will generate £45.1 billion in economic benefits against public costs of £4.7 billion, a HEPI and Kaplan report by London Economics estimates. That is a ratio of 9.7 to 1, which is the kind of number budgets usually like.
Read more at The Indian Express →South Korea has proposed letting international students with TOPIK Level 4 or higher skip proof of funds for tuition and living costs. Students seen as higher risk of overstaying could face extra safeguards, such as study funds deposited for a set period, Business Today reports.
Read more at Business Today →A DHS proposal would make colleges pay $70,000 for every international student who stays on Optional Practical Training after graduating, plus $30,000 for each later recommendation. More than 294,250 students used OPT in 2024-25. DHS says it may otherwise shut the programme.
Read more at Legis1 →New SEVP guidance means Curricular Practical Training is now granted only for training that every student in a programme needs to earn the degree, the University of Rochester's international office says. Placements tied to elective courses or academic credit no longer qualify.
Read more at campustimes.org →Australia has tightened provider transfer and student visa rules and expanded biometric checks in India, with new biometric requirements from 26 October, India Today reports. The changes put more weight on documents and financial preparation for Indian families planning to study there.
Read more at India Today →The Administrative Review Tribunal's backlog of student visa reviews grew 42% in 2025-26 to 54,176 cases, against 11,528 two years earlier. It finalised 13,231 cases, up 135%, while 29,346 new applications arrived. The tribunal doubled its pace and the queue still won.
Read more at thekoalanews.com →A preliminary analysis by StudyMove suggests Australian universities will raise international tuition more moderately for 2027 than last year. The July rise in the visa application fee to over AU$2,000 and high refusal rates for some countries are shaping pricing, ICEF Monitor reports.
Read more at ICEF Monitor →A proposal urges Australia to use the visa fees of rejected student applicants to cut tuition on Australian programmes delivered in their home countries. The A$2,500 fee is a crippling sum for many families in Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal, where most applications are rejected.
Read more at Times Higher Education →Tuition may be free at many German universities, but Indian students still pay for accommodation, food, health insurance, travel and visa fees, Education Times reports. Karuna Syal of YES Germany says total costs vary widely. Free has always had small print.
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The Taco Bell Foundation's 12th Live Más Scholarship is open to students aged 16 to 26, with awards of up to $25,000 and no GPA or test scores required. Applicants send a two minute video or a short essay by 5 January 2027.
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Medtronic will award up to 100 scholarships worldwide to students pursuing health tech degrees or credentials. Support runs up to $15,000 in the US or $10,000 elsewhere, renewable for up to four years. It is part of a 10 year plan aimed at 1 million low income students.
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Politecnico di Milano has announced 64 merit scholarships for international students in its English-taught MSc programmes for 2027-28. They cover full tuition and pay allowances of up to €10,000. The scholarship deadline is 15 December, with admission applications due by 1 December.
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The Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund has opened applications for its fellowship for Indian citizens with a strong record who want to work on research or creative projects related to India. Fellows can work from anywhere in India, and there is no fixed last date.
Read more at The Times of India →Birmingham City University will offer six fully funded PhD studentships for September 2027 under the AHRC Doctoral Landscape Awards, three funded by the AHRC and three matched by BCU. The deadline is 16 November.
Read more at opportunitydesk.org →The Bulgarian National Bank will award two master's scholarships of €383.47 a month and one doctoral scholarship of €511.29 a month, each paid for nine months. Applications are open until 14 December. A central bank paying students is the gentlest form of monetary policy.
Read more at burgasmedia.com →Music producer Don Jazzy has partnered with TS Academy on the Don Jazzy Tech Scholarship 2027, which offers tuition support of up to ₦447,000. Some selected beneficiaries will also receive laptops and internet data, according to the announcement on 26 October.
Read more at withinnigeria.com →The Indic AI Scholarship Program 2026-27 offers students with disabilities full scholarships for CUET, JEE, CAT and CLAT preparation, DT Next reports. It includes coaching, study materials and mock tests. Class 11 and 12 students can apply for the relevant exams.
Read more at DT Next →Tata Capital's Pankh Scholarship supports students from economically weaker sections in Classes 11 and 12, undergraduate, diploma and ITI courses. Applicants need at least 60% in the previous year and family income under Rs 4 lakh. It covers 80% to 100% of tuition.
Read more at DT Next →The Sitaram Jindal Foundation's 2026 scholarship supports students from Class 11 to postgraduate level, including ITI and diploma courses, who are under 30. Income limits are ₹4 lakh for salaried families and ₹2.5 lakh for others. Applications are accepted round the year.
Read more at DT Next →Two emerging artists from the Kochi Biennale Foundation's Students' Biennale will spend a semester at Beaux-Arts de Marseille under the Raza Students' Biennale Scholarship. The French Institute in India and the Raza Foundation cover travel, accommodation and living expenses.
Read more at deccanchronicle.com →Kenya's Universities Fund says scholarship costs for 2026-27 will reach Sh47 billion against an allocation of Sh30.1 billion. Acting CEO Edwin Wanyonyi said thousands of students risk missing out and called for better coordination among funders.
Read more at The Eastleigh Voice →Indiana University's Hudson and Holland Scholars Program took no new students this year and will not next year, citing 'the change in legislative policy in our state'. Current scholars are unaffected, a spokesperson said. The programme has 2,400 students.
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Critics fear a 'two-tier' system as more Western universities win approval for Indian branch campuses. Tamil Nadu teachers' body JAC objected to the University of Western Australia's Chennai approval, noting that over half of the state's 21 state universities have faculty vacancies, Times Higher Education reports.
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Pomona College will absorb nearby Claremont Graduate University after talks that began in late 2025. Both keep their own academic programmes, boards and senior leaders, Inside Higher Ed reports. The two are minutes apart, which is convenient for a merger.
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NUS and NTU will offer a joint MSc in Nuclear Engineering, Singapore's first postgraduate degree in the field, with 10 courses including six core subjects. Energy minister Tan See Leng announced it at the Singapore Energy Lecture on 26 October.
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IIT Kharagpur will set up the Benjamin Gupta School of Physical AI with Rs 35 crore. The Vinod Gupta family is giving Rs 12.5 crore and an anonymous alumnus Rs 10 crore, with the institute funding the rest. It will work with the AI department.
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The QS Arab Region University Rankings 2027 assessed 322 universities across 20 systems. The UAE has 19 ranked, including three debutants, with three in the top 10 and six in the top 20, Gulf News reports.
Read more at Gulf News →The University of Providence, a Catholic nonprofit in Montana, will shut in summer 2027. It cited 'years of sustained enrollment decline and increasing financial pressure' in its announcement on Tuesday, Higher Ed Dive reports.
Read more at Higher Ed Dive →Seoul National University's senate discussed how its new division of global talent will operate on 22 October. It named schools such as the United Nations International School of Hanoi as priority targets. A vice president said it is focusing on places that nurture talent well.
Read more at e.vnexpress.net →Former Griffith pro vice-chancellor Sarah Todd told a Sydney forum the 'big four' study destinations have become the 'big 14' and now the 'big 30', from Greece to Saudi Arabia. Australia's universities should band together, she said. Geography has become competitive.
Read more at Times Higher Education →American International University-Bangladesh is the top private university in Bangladesh in the THE World University Rankings 2027, in the 801 to 1,000 band. The edition assessed 2,297 universities in 118 countries and territories.
Read more at tbsnews.net →Sheffield Hallam University has signed MoUs with IISM Mumbai, Somaiya Vidyavihar University and IFHE Hyderabad covering research, staff and student exchanges and progression pathways, Education Times reports. They were signed during the Great North trade mission to India.
Read more at Education Times →Jeonbuk National University opened an international centre at Renaissance University in Tashkent on 23 October. It will give Uzbek students admissions information for its undergraduate and graduate programmes and expand exchanges and joint research, the Korea Herald reports.
Read more at The Korea Herald →The University of Northern British Columbia recorded its best ever score in the research environment pillar of the THE World University Rankings, rising for a sixth straight year with its largest single gain. It also matched its best teaching score.
Read more at educationnewscanada.com →Economics majors from Williams College earn a median $166,678 four years after graduation, the highest among economics programmes nationally, Department of Education data shows. That is $51,596 more than in 2022. The department chair said he was 'pleasantly surprised'.
Read more at williamsrecord.com →Spelman College is first in the U.S. News HBCU rankings 2027 for the 20th consecutive year, followed by Howard, Tuskegee and Morehouse, with North Carolina A&T fifth. Spelman also ranks second for social mobility among national liberal arts colleges.
Read more at texasmetronews.com →Wonkhe's roundup says the Budget changed the rules on Graduate route visas and set next steps on devolution funding, while offering little to students. Money for radical changes to the student loan system is 'limited-to-nonexistent', it says.
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AISHE data puts India's higher education pupil-teacher ratio at 22:1, inside the 15:1 to 25:1 norm, with about 4.5 crore students and over 17 lakh teachers. The Hindu argues the healthy number sits alongside widespread vacant faculty posts.
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A white paper by IIT Madras researchers argues AI is more likely to automate specific tasks than whole professions in India. The impact will depend on the nature of the work, technology costs and how organisations restructure roles. Job titles, it seems, are safer than job descriptions.
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Contract and casual teaching jobs have become a dominant feature of Indian higher education, a Hindu column argues, driven by funding cuts and pressure on universities to manage their own money. Hiring contract staff is seen as an easy, cheap fix that leaves faculty security behind.
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A Studyportals and Nous Group report on the UK, US, Canada and Australia finds employer demand for business and engineering graduates outstrips the popularity of those courses. It urges universities to build employer partnerships and embed AI across disciplines, from marketing to health.
Read more at Times Higher Education →Ashoka and Plaksha co-founder Vineet Gupta told ET Education that rankings weighted towards research can push institutions to chase publications and patents without strengthening their core mission. Private universities, he says, must balance affordability, quality and financial viability.
Read more at education.economictimes.indiatimes.com →A month after announcing it would close the Sternberg Museum of Natural History over a $2.4 million state funding cut, Fort Hays State has reversed course after community support. The museum holds more than three million specimens. The fossils have outlasted another budget.
Read more at Inside Higher Ed →The University of Maryland will raffle a semester of free in-state base tuition, worth about $5,500, to students who stay until the fourth quarter of Saturday's game. The team is 2-5 and attendance has been sparse. Tuition is now a retention strategy for the stands.
Read more at Inside Higher Ed →Colleges are advertising on streaming services. Sweet Briar College's 30 second ad, aimed at Virginia households with 16 to 18 year olds and an interest in horses, was followed by a 14% rise in applications and 22% in deposits, Inside Higher Ed reports.
Read more at Inside Higher Ed →A dashboard from the HEA Group shows median earnings four years after graduation by state, field and credential. Delaware's median undergraduate completer earned double the median high school graduate. In Colorado the premium was 55%.
Read more at Inside Higher Ed →Nalanda Medical College and Hospital in Patna has suspended 146 students from its MBBS 2025 batch for three months after allegations that junior female students were taken to the hostel rooftop at night and harassed. The NMC and the Bihar government have sought an explanation.
Read more at News18 →Real jobs only, from graduate roles to university admissions, checked today. Every listing links to the original posting. Want to stand out when you apply? Earth5R's FIELDWORK fellowship gives you real research with real people, which reads better than another certificate.
Education summits and conferences coming up, each checked against its own page this morning. Bring questions. Admissions teams like those.
Higher-education and learning science that landed recently. Preprints say so on the card. Findings stay where the source put them.
Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used for medical self-diagnosis. However, the way demographic cues shape outputs in these interactions remains poorly understood. This is particularly consequential for diagnoses like ADHD, where persistent gender disparities are. Preprint, not peer reviewed.
Announce Type: new Abstract: Artificial intelligence (AI) is often analysed through technical, organisational, or regulatory perspectives that treat capability, adoption, and governance as separate issues. This article conceptualises AI instead as an emerging macro socio-technical regime generated through the interaction. Preprint, not peer reviewed.
Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used for codebook-based content analysis in computational social science, where codebooks translate theoretical concepts into labeling schemes. While prior work reports strong predictive performance, it remains unclear whether these systems. Preprint, not peer reviewed.
Announce Type: new Abstract: Automated research pipelines increasingly rely on fixed LLM judges to rank, filter, and revise proposals, yet these judges are routinely replaced by newer versions. We study whether such replacements preserve the underlying measurement standard. Using a. Preprint, not peer reviewed.
Announce Type: cross Abstract: Propagandistic content increasingly circulates through online news and social media, where readers often encounter it with limited scrutiny, highlighting the need for reliable and fine-grained detection. This paper introduces Propasafe-Hybrid, a sentence-level system that integrates a. Preprint, not peer reviewed.
Announce Type: cross Abstract: Most analyses of AI and employment ask which jobs are exposed. This paper asks what happens to the pipeline that produces experts. It extends the model of Caosun and Aral (2026) from a single worker to. Preprint, not peer reviewed.
Announce Type: cross Abstract: Programming language ecosystems (PLEs), such as CRAN for R, have greatly accelerated software reuse. At the same time, they have increased software supply-chain risks and incidents. However, the problems are not limited to cyber security, everything. Preprint, not peer reviewed.
Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) increasingly deliver information through personas, but it is unclear whether correcting the facts also makes their framing consistent across identity labels. We audited four LLMs (GPT-5.4 mini, NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano, Llama. Preprint, not peer reviewed.
Talks for campus people. Each one was still up on YouTube this morning.
Welcome to Harvard, Class of 2030!. From Harvard University, 2 min.
A New Nation: A Plan of Boston. From Harvard University, 2 min.
Jonny Kim | Harvard Alumni Day 2026. From Harvard University, 15 min.