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Fall 2026 college enrollment rose just 0.2 percent overall in preliminary Clearinghouse data released 29 October, as a 3.7 percent fall in master's enrollment offset a 1.2 percent gain at community colleges.
US business school applications fall 2026 by 25% in GMAC's Application Trends Survey, released 27 October, with full-time MBA applications down 27% as Europe and Asia gained applicants.
An extra year of school dementia risk study, published 23 October 2026, uses Britain's 1972 school-leaving-age reform and more than 100,000 UK Biobank records to show one added year of schooling cut dementia incidence over the following 50 years.
Guaranteed admission Colorado State University is now a pilot reality: Colorado seniors with a 3.0 GPA who apply for summer or fall 2027 get a promised place, with clear limits families should read first.
An extreme heat exam scores Cambodia study of 731,279 Grade 12 students found a one-degree rise in the school-year heat index linked to lower social science scores, with girls and rural students hit hardest.
A California early education study tracking 1.6 million children finds preschool and transitional kindergarten gains still visible in fourth grade — nearly 11 months ahead in reading.
273 million children out of school UNESCO 2026 is the headline — but the report's sharper finding is on money: only 1 in 10 countries finances education with a strong equity focus.
Girls education enrolment parity has been reached worldwide from pre-primary to secondary school, UNESCO reports, yet early marriage, pregnancy and poverty still stop millions of girls finishing.
PISA 2025, published on 8 September, recorded the lowest OECD averages ever in reading and mathematics. In the EU, one in three students underachieves in reading or maths — and the slide began before the pandemic.
A PLOS One study of 533 Indonesian students found that when large language models power personalized learning, creativity may rise — most sharply in analyzing and creating. Two other new studies complicate the picture in useful ways.
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