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Illustration: Jim CookeLast month, it looked like the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign had one of the better plans for bringing students back, which included frequent testing for everyone on campus.“If [students] had adhered to what we had asked them to do, we would have had no more than about 700 cases the entire semester,”…

(CNN)Towson University in Baltimore County, Maryland is temporarily moving to online classes after 55 people tested positive for Covid-19 on campus over two days last week, the university said Saturd…

In the UK, international students tuition fees are a large part of universities budgets. Each international student pays an average of £5,100 more than it costs to educate them, with fees for undergr…

Author Tara Westover reflects that she has taken more notice of other people since the pandemic struck – especially key workers. She wants people to come together as one and not be divided by class, education or profession. In the early days of this pandemic, we were told that Covid-19 would be the “great equaliser”…

Last week, we suggested that for a truly diverse venture industry, the limited partners that provide investing capital to VCs — institutions like universities and hospital systems — need to start incorporating diversity mandates into their work. Say a venture firm wanted to secure a commitment from the University of Texas System; it would first…

Microsoft is expanding the number of participants visible during a Teams meeting to 49, the company announced in a blog post Monday. The maximum number of participants in a private Teams meeting is 250; rival Zoom’s paid plans allow up to 500 participants at a time. But the 49-person on-screen view — which Microsoft announced…