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Visa crackdowns are blocking students’ study-abroad dreams, so India’s Leverage Edu is rerouting them

As visa crackdowns and diplomatic tensions block traditional study-abroad routes, India’s Leverage Edu is helping students reroute their dreams — from Canada to Germany, and from India to Nigeria and Saudi Arabia. That agility is paying off: The startup has doubled its revenue, turned profitable, and is now expanding its global footprint. Over the past...

Newcastle College students unveil creative mural at Eldon Square
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Newcastle College students unveil creative mural at Eldon Square

Published September 26, 2025 Newcastle’s premier shopping and leisure destination Eldon Square has unveiled a creative mural as part of a collaboration with Newcastle College. The 24-metre mural showcases the work from fashion students across multiple courses, featuring mood boards, sketchbook pages, technical fashion flats, illustrations and styled photography, “giv[ing] a view into the creative...

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Y Combinator launches ‘Early Decision’ for students who want to graduate first, build later

For decades, Silicon Valley has valorized the college dropout. Founders like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Mark Zuckerberg left school early to build companies and they became billionaires.  That ethos was later institutionalized through initiatives like the Thiel Fellowship, which famously pays promising students $100,000 to leave college and start companies. For many years, the...