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Bloomberg
12 hours ago
- Business
- Bloomberg
Students Trying to ‘Escape the Trump Years' Turn to UK Universities
Wealth As the Trump administration clashes with elite colleges and targets foreign students, Britain is seen as a place to escape the polarizing politics on US campuses. For the past 15 years, Don McMillan, a college-admissions consultant, has worked just down the road from Harvard University, one of the most prestigious schools targeted by his clients from the US and around the globe. This month, he expanded his business 3,000 miles (4,800 kilometers) and an ocean away to tap into what's becoming a rapidly growing line of work: Advising the students who are souring on America and looking to go to college in the UK instead.
South China Morning Post
12 hours ago
- Politics
- South China Morning Post
Unlike Trump, ancient China embraced foreign students and even made exams easier for them
Foreigners who are thinking of enrolling in American universities are having second thoughts or cancelling their plans outright following President Donald Trump's attempts to cut funding to Harvard University and block it from enrolling foreign students. A few months ago, my nephew, an undergraduate at the National University of Singapore, was considering applying to an American university for his exchange programme in 2026. Now, he is looking at universities in the United Kingdom, Australia and China. Imperial China's highest institutes of learning were not just for locals. For centuries, when China was the civilisational lodestar in the region, people from all over Asia came to study in its universities and try their luck in the famously tough imperial examinations. Some did very well. Harvard filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration in April, following threats to the university's federal funding. Photo: AFP To make it easier for foreign candidates, the Tang dynasty government created a special examination category in 627 that was basically a separate track just for foreign scholars.
Bloomberg
3 days ago
- Business
- Bloomberg
Lenders Find a Fast-Growing Market in Foreign Grad Students
What's behind the astonishing growth in the number of foreign students enrolled in US graduate schools—growth now under attack from the Trump administration? In fall 2023, according to data from the Institute of International Education, just over half a million such students were enrolled. That was up 30% from 2021, when international enrollment had nearly recovered to its pre-Covid peak. To be sure, American institutions have recruited heavily from around the world, particularly to fill seats in research labs and classrooms. But a handful of companies, including two in the US, are greasing the wheels with innovative loans that require neither collateral nor a US cosigner of foreign students from less-developed countries, who make up a growing share of international grad students.
News24
4 days ago
- Politics
- News24
‘Essential hedge against authoritarianism': Judge blocks Trump plan to target Harvard students
A US judge blocked the Trump administration from implementing its foreign student ban at Harvard University. The judge said that the plan was retaliation against Harvard for failing to bend to the administration's will. Harvard is seeking to unfreeze around $2.5 billion in funding. A federal judge on Monday blocked US President Donald Trump's administration from implementing his plan to bar foreign nationals from entering the US to study at Harvard University. US District Judge Allison Burroughs in Boston issued an injunction barring Trump's administration from carrying out its latest bid to curtail Harvard's ability to host international students amid an escalating fight pitting the Republican president against the prestigious Ivy League school. The preliminary injunction extends a temporary order the judge issued on 5 June that prevented the administration from enforcing a proclamation Trump signed a day earlier that cited national security concerns to justify why Harvard could no longer be trusted to host international students. She ruled after Trump's Friday announcement that his administration could announce a deal with Harvard 'over the next week or so' to resolve the White House's campaign against the university, which has waged a legal battle against the administration's various actions against the school. Trump signed the proclamation after his administration had already frozen billions of dollars in funding to the oldest and wealthiest US university, threatened Harvard's tax-exempt status and launched several investigations into the school. The proclamation prohibited foreign nationals from entering the US to study at Harvard or participate in exchange visitor programmes for an initial period of six months, and directed Secretary of State Marco Rubio to consider whether to revoke visas of international students already enrolled at Harvard. But Burroughs said Trump's administration was likely violating Harvard's free speech rights under the US Constitution's First Amendment by retaliating against it for refusing to meet its demands to cede control over the school's curriculum and admissions and by targeting it based on what officials viewed as the university's left-leaning orientation. The judge said that 'at its root, this case is about core constitutional rights that must be safeguarded: Freedom of thought, freedom of expression, and freedom of speech, each of which is a pillar of a functioning democracy and an essential hedge against authoritarianism.' 'Here, the government's misplaced efforts to control a reputable academic institution and squelch diverse viewpoints seemingly because they are, in some instances, opposed to this Administration's own views, threaten these rights,' she wrote. Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Harvard said the ruling will allow it to continue hosting international students and scholars while this case moves forward. It added it will continue to defend the rights of the school, its students and scholars. The White House did not immediately respond to requests for comment. The university has filed two separate lawsuits before Burroughs, an appointee of Democratic president Barack Obama, seeking to unfreeze around $2.5 billion in funding and to prevent the administration from blocking the ability of international students to attend the university. The latter lawsuit was filed after Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on 22 May announced that her department was immediately revoking Harvard's Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification, which allows it to enrol foreign students. Almost 6 800 international students attended Harvard in its most recent school year, making up about 27% of its student population. Noem, without providing evidence, accused the university of 'fostering violence, antisemitism, and coordinating with the Chinese Communist Party'. Her action was temporarily blocked by Burroughs almost immediately. While the Department of Homeland Security has since shifted to challenging Harvard's certification through a lengthier administrative process, Burroughs at a 29 May hearing said she planned to issue an injunction to maintain the status quo, which she did officially on Friday. A week after the hearing, Trump signed his proclamation, which cited concerns about Harvard's acceptance of foreign money including from China and what it said was an inadequate response by the school to his administration's demand for information on foreign students. His administration has accused Harvard of creating an unsafe environment for Jewish students and allowing antisemitism to fester on its campus. Protests over US ally Israel's treatment of Palestinians during its war in Gaza have roiled numerous universities' campuses, including Harvard's. Rights advocates have noted rising antisemitism and Islamophobia in the US due to the war. The Trump administration has thus far announced no action over anti-Arab and anti-Muslim hate. Harvard's own antisemitism and Islamophobia task forces found widespread fear and bigotry at the university in reports released in late April.
Bloomberg
20-06-2025
- Politics
- Bloomberg
Harvard Gets Longer Reprieve From Trump Foreign Student Ban
A federal judge issued a new order that allows Harvard University to continue enrolling foreign students while the school fights the Trump administration 's efforts to prevent it from doing so. US District Judge Allison Burroughs granted Harvard a preliminary injunction Friday that prevents the Trump administration from implementing a May 22 order revoking the university's ability to host international students. The injunction extends an earlier temporary bar that was set to expire.
