Education

NUS holds firm at 8th, while NTU rises to 12th in latest global university rankings
Singapore’s universities have once again secured top-tier positions in the QS World University Rankings 2026, with the National University of Singapore (NUS) maintaining...

Trump ban targets Harvard foreign students
[WORLD] With a single proclamation, the Trump administration escalates a bitter power struggle over who controls America’s ivory towers—and who gets to study...

How ideology is undermining education
[MALAYSIA] The weaponization of education is nothing new. But what’s happening in the US today—particularly under a second Trump presidency—is revealing just how...

The student loan SAVE pause has ended. Now what?
The end of the student loan SAVE pause isn’t just a policy footnote—it’s a financial inflection point. For millions of borrowers, this signals...

How education cuts are quietly killing economic mobility
In the United Arab Emirates, the Ministry of Education just launched yet another technical school program designed to plug future workforce gaps in...

Pay off student loans or save for a down payment? What to do first
When your financial life feels split between building a future and cleaning up the past, it’s natural to feel pulled in both directions....

What the IBR student loan forgiveness delay means for you
The U.S. Department of Education has temporarily paused debt forgiveness for borrowers on the Income-Based Repayment (IBR) plan—one of the most commonly used...

What the repayment assistance plan means for your student loans
When Congress passed its “big beautiful bill” earlier this year and President Trump signed it into law, the spotlight fell on a new...

Does ChatGPT make students smarter—or just better at faking it?
You can tell when a sentence has no soul. It’s grammatically perfect. Structurally clean. But when you read it, it just… floats. No...

Intern alleges sudden firing, no pay for week of work
One of the most painful lessons I learned as a founder wasn’t about product or revenue. It was about power—and how easily we...

How the 2026 student loan cap affects graduate and parent borrowers
Starting July 1, 2026, the US federal student loan system will undergo its biggest shift in decades. Under a sweeping tax and spending...

College tuition is still rising—here’s who’s pushing the price
Higher education has long sold itself as a launchpad: a stable path to economic mobility, social capital, and job security. And for decades,...

How moving abroad affects your student loan repayment
You’ve accepted a job in London. Or maybe you’re teaching in Seoul. Or starting over in Portugal, chasing a slower pace of life....
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