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• ‘Only Nazis ban books’: on the frontlines with students fighting Trump over higher education

  06-03-2026 11:04
  Documentary First They Came for My College goes inside the fight for academic freedom at Florida’s New CollegeIt took a half century to build New College into a sanctuary of independent thought and less than a year to destroy it. In 2023 the beloved Florida liberal arts school became state governor Ron DeSantis’s latest target in his so-called war on woke. DeSantis decimated the school’s trustee board and installed a cabal of rightwing cronies, aiming to transform it into a con
  
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• Vice-chancellor calls for review into student loans for those without A-levels

  06-03-2026 07:00
  Adam Tickell, of University of Birmingham, says money is loaned to people who ‘are not really capable of graduating’A leading vice-chancellor has questioned whether students without A-levels should be eligible for government-backed student loans, as part of an effort to solve England’s university funding crisis.Adam Tickell, vice-chancellor of the University of Birmingham, said universities face an “almost existential challenge” and falling public support that requi
  
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