A university league table has revealed only two UK universities in its top 10, while the rest of the top spots were dominated by U.S. higher education institutions. The Center for World University Rankings (CWUR), which published its global rankings on May 15, evaluated universities around the world on four measures: education, employability, faculty, and…

I’ve studied the Mafia for decades because my grandparents were Sicilian. Also, I was a college professor for 25 years, so I’ve had plenty of opportunity to observe the commonalities between mafias and universities. Let’s start with some familiar mafia clichés and then dig deeper. They Make You an Offer You Can’t Refuse This line…

“In the Name of Confucius” is the first documentary film exposing the growing global controversies surrounding the Chinese regime’s multi-billion dollar Confucius Institute (CI), a Chinese language program attaching to over 1,600 foreign universities and schools around the world. Featuring the exclusive personal story of a former CI teacher, Sonia Zhao, whose defection and complaint…

Half of British universities are pushing radical progressive ideas and practices that have roots in Marxist ideology, according to a new report. All top universities have adopted “wholesale, a mutation, and splicing of past radicalisms that include Marxism, postmodernism, feminism, Freudianism, and Maoism, fomented largely through public subsidies,” according to a new report by the…

Commentary Ever wonder why almost all our colleges and universities from the Ivy League on down have turned into “woke” indoctrination camps, with real education increasingly in the rearview mirror? Look no further than the following from the New York Post: “The University of Pennsylvania received more than $30 million from Chinese donors shortly after…

Has your university changed? Has it become a nasty place where an ideological monoculture is imposed through intimidation? If so, what can you do about it? Many people are creating alumni free speech groups. They band together with other graduates of their university to bring back a democratic culture of free speech. I have joined…

Commentary In a famous exchange in the “The Sun Also Rises,” Ernest Hemingway wrote: “How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked. “Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually, then suddenly.” “Gradually” and “suddenly” applies to higher education’s implosion. During the 1990s “culture wars” universities were warned that their chronic tuition hikes above the rate of inflation were…

China, its capital in particular, has been hit hard by the recent wave of COVID-19 that is sweeping the country. After dozens of professors and teachers from top Chinese universities passed away during the past 30 days, four more prominent Chinese figures have been reported to have died in the three days Sunday to Monday,…

A Chinese university has been training educators to monitor students with an on-campus information management system, according to a recording obtained by the Chinese language edition of The Epoch Times. According to the recording from a 2019 training session on the information management system, the School of Marxism at Wuhan University is responsible for training…

The UK’s independent quality body for higher education has drafted recommendations so graduates will now be expected to acknowledge racism, classism, ableism, homophobia, and patriarchy through their degrees. The Quality Assurance Agency (QAA), which is entrusted with monitoring and advising on standards and quality in UK higher education, is urging British universities to teach a…