Stanford student Justin Sato, admitted to Stanford, Princeton, and Caltech, revealed a 15% JEE score. His post highlights India's intense competition and diverse assessment of talent, contrasting US holistic admissions with India's exam-centric approach.
A Turkish immigrant to the UK observes the erosion of common ground and rise of 'enemy' rhetoric, linking it to Brexit and social media. The author contrasts past openness with current polarization, advocating for arts and empathy to mend social fractures.
Montenegrin police, in cooperation with the FBI, arrested an Iranian-Turkish national, A.B., in Kotor, wanted by the U.S. for alleged cyberattacks causing over $3.4 billion in damage. The suspect is accused of hacking US infrastructure, including universities, for the benefit of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
New UK government policy requiring minimum GCSE grades for student loans could cost universities over £200m annually. This move disproportionately affects institutions reliant on students without formal qualifications, potentially narrowing access to higher education for disadvantaged learners.
The National Testing Agency (NTA) has postponed the CUET UG 2026 exam scheduled for May 28 due to the Id-ul-Zuha (Bakrid) holiday. Revised dates will be announced later. Candidates should check official websites for updates.
A study found strict mobile phone bans in US schools had little to no impact on student learning, attendance, or online bullying, despite reducing phone usage. Researchers noted mixed findings, with modest positive effects on maths scores for older students but negative effects for younger ones.
More than 2,300 mathematicians from nearly 80 countries have signed a petition to move the 2026 International Congress of Mathematicians out of the United States, citing visa barriers, safety concerns and US policies they say undermine the inclusiveness of global science. The petition, co-organised by Varma, calls on Chinese mathematicians to support the boycott and convince their mathematical societies to do the same.
Cybersecurity researcher Alex Shakhov found that subdomains for UC Berkeley, Columbia University, and Washington University in St. Louis are serving explicit porn and scam content after scammers exploited dangling CNAME records. The vulnerability allows attackers to register expired subdomain names, leveraging university reputations to appear in Google search results. Hundreds of subdomains across at least 34 universities are affected.
