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Submitted May 4, 2026 at 02:42AM by Alone-Gur-1791 https://ift.tt/GKkBtw3

Course suggestions

I’m gonna join srm kattakulathur this year. Maths+CS student.
Gave entrance exam and waiting for the results.

Confused which group I should join?
Cse or AI or cybersecurity??

I’m not a topper. Mid student. Please advise

Submitted May 4, 2026 at 01:25AM by Overall-Sorbet-6091 https://ift.tt/e0z2BrJ

US higher education recorded 150 confirmed actions (program suspensions, staff layoffs, department closures, institution closures, campus closures) in all of 2025. We are on pace to exceed that before summer 2026.

49 actions have been reported in 2026 so far. January through April. Four months.

The pattern from 2024 and 2025 is that cuts cluster in spring, when budget cycles close and boards vote. The fall typically brings a second wave when enrollment numbers come in below projection. 2026 is running ahead of both prior years at this point in the calendar, 49 actions in the first four months, compared to 21 in early 2024 and 20 in early 2025.

What changed? Federal funding uncertainty accelerated decisions that institutions were already delaying. Schools that were managing a slow fiscal decline shifted into crisis mode when the runway shortened.

258 total actions tracked since 2024. 49 in the first four months of this year alone.

This is not a correction. It is a compression.

What are your thoughts?

Submitted May 3, 2026 at 06:50AM by CodOk8369 https://ift.tt/TQ8fBlS

I travelled to villages in Rajasthan during the pandemic. This is what I saw about girls dropping out of school.

In 2020, I travelled to Banswara and Dungarpur to document women’s education in villages.

One thing stayed with me.

An 18-year-old girl missed her exams because she didn’t have a phone. She didn’t even know the dates.

Another girl dropped out because her school had no desks, and she couldn’t sit on the floor due to a leg injury.

In most places I visited, this wasn’t unusual. It was normal.

What struck me more than the lack of resources was how accepted it all felt. Families, schools, even the girls themselves had already adjusted to it.

We talk a lot about growth and becoming a global power, but in these places, basic access to education is still fragile.

I wrote a longer piece about this experience. Sharing it in the comments in case anyone wants to read.

Submitted May 3, 2026 at 05:19AM by No_Eye_3350 https://ift.tt/W9mTQy7

Top-up Bachelor

I'm so hopeless. I finished high school with summa cum laude and then signed up for a 2-year college with a promise that you can get a Bachelor's degree after in 1 year. I'm now finishing the second year of college, and the 1 year bachelor was a lie. I'm now stuck with a "diploma" but no Bachelor's degree. If I want a Bachelor I'd need to do at least 3 years of uni again. It seems like such a waste of time. But I want a Bachelor, that was my main goal :/

I know about top-up bachelor options but I'm from Europe and have a hard time finding an option for that. I would appreciate ANY recs or even other options that you would think could help.

I'm a good student, hardworking and always do everything. I also want to do my Master's after but if I do 3 years of uni again, my master is in 5 years and I'll already by 25 then 😭 I feel like this set me back so much, and I'm so mad and dissapointed.

Also is there any other sub I can post this to ? Need as much info as possible.

Submitted May 3, 2026 at 03:57AM by mollyxxxxxx https://ift.tt/UgjbeEC

what to study

hi guys, im writing because i honestly dont know what to study. im 17 and in my third year of high school, however im planning to apply to full ride scholarships in europe (thats where i live now, but i wanna move)

so i was wondering what options are the best. i want to study something that will bring me financial stability, but id also eventually want to work in my home country, though ill probably be back after i graduate (bureaucracy things iykyk), id like to live somewhere else at some point in my twenties. i like things like history and geography, psychology, social work and maybe comms. so yes, im a humanities girl bc i suck at math and other natural sciences. + i know finding work with these is hard but id like something that AI wont overtake by the time i finish uni

Submitted May 2, 2026 at 10:04AM by idontknowitatall123 https://ift.tt/4dbXCFc

Dual Immersion Opt-Out

My friend is having her child start TK this coming school year and has gone through the application process for they're local zoned public school as well as putting in a transfer to a school that is more convenient for carpool and transportation purposes. They recently received a letter for a Dual Immersion Program Orientation for their assigned school and attended. Throughout the orientation, the principal kept speaking like it was an opt-in program, which they expected. It wasn't until questions afterwards where someone asked how to make it known they want the program, that the Principal stated that they were already fully DLI and if you want to opt-out, you need to go to the district and request a transfer.

The family is now scrambling to find another school, as they do not want to start dual immersion for TK and they've gone from being interested to completely pulling back because it's being forced.

Their issue now:

The district has rolled out the waitlists already (they are number 6 in their preferred school) but they would have put their hat in the ring for multiple other schools had the city and district made this mandatory program more widely known.

As of right now the district is basically telling them they'll get the short end of the stick, per se, because they're essentially too late and will be placed where there is space. For info, every single other school has a wait-list except for one.

Does any one have any advice on what actions they can take? They are talking about going to the Board to prevent this from happening to future families.

Just to add. The school seems to not want to be very open about the program being mandatory and after talking to someone from the district transfer department, there is a disconnect between them and the Principal on what actions should be taken regarding "opt-out" placement of students.

In future years, the hope is for students zoned in that area that want to opt out to essentially be in a priority lottery for placement along with the siblings and other priority groups so these families have a fair placement and not given the left over spaces.

Submitted May 2, 2026 at 09:13AM by endofthewrldprtyfavr https://ift.tt/Km9ByGS