Catch our wrap-up of student news around the globe:\u00a0privilege pays in Oxford,\u00a0Big Brother comes to Kenyan campuses, forced patriotism in Egypt, nuclear fears in China and underground survival in the US.<\/p>\n
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Kenyan Universities this month\u00a0rolled out biometric registration of students to easier identify them, in line with a government directive last year. The reason for this ‘Big Brother’ move was that students had been identified as easy targets for terrorists and terror networks.\u00a0Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, the University of Nairobi and Maasai Mara University are among the institutions that registered first-year students biometrically this month.\u00a0– Read more at Daily Nation<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n An Oxford medical student who stabbed her Cambridge University boyfriend in the leg with a bread knife was spared jail this week as the judge said she was \u201ctoo bright\u201d to be given a prison sentence.\u00a0The lenient verdict came\u00a0four months after the judge describes the aspiring heart surgeon as an \u201cextraordinarily able young lady\u201d, whose talents meant that a prison sentence would be \u201ctoo severe\u201d. While awaiting the verdict, the accused spent time at her mother’s villa in Milan. Privilege evidently counts for something in UK courts. – Read more at the\u00a0The Telegraph<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n While the US is abuzz over NFL players kneeling during the national anthem, Egypt’s new academic year kicked off this week with a new tradition of saluting the flag. This new measure to promote patriotism was announced by\u00a0Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research Khaled Abdel Ghaffar, following\u00a0 a decision\u00a0by the\u00a0Higher Council of Universities (HCU). This has, unsurprisingly, drawn criticism from some who argue that such ceremonies fail to address more pressing problems in an embattled education system.\u00a0According to Ahram Online, there have been no active student unions in Egyptian public universities since their dissolution in 2015. – Read more on Ahram Online<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n Some Chinese universities are restricting the admission of North Korean students and even blacklisting their scholarship applications as the nuclear weapons crisis escalates on the Korean peninsula, according to several college enrolment officers.\u00a0All the officials said they were following government instructions, but they did not make clear at what level the orders were made.\u00a0– Read more on The South China Morning Post<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n A 19-year-old physics major in Indiana licked moisture off of cave walls when trapped in a cave for nearly three days after being left behind by a university caving group.\u00a0Lukas Cavar told the Indiana Daily Student that wrote goodbye messages to friends and family on his phone after being locked inside the Sullivan Cave in Southern Indiana on Sunday. Realising their mistake only days later, the leaders of the society rushed back to free Cavar on Tuesday evening – Read more at Indiana Daily Student<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Catch our wrap-up of student news around the globe:\u00a0privilege pays in Oxford,\u00a0Big Brother comes to Kenyan campuses, forced patriotism in Egypt, nuclear fears in China and underground survival in the US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":4711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,13,33],"tags":[162,59,68,304],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4679"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Oxford student spared jail for being ‘too bright’<\/strong><\/h5>\n
Egyptian students forced to salute\u00a0flag<\/strong><\/h5>\n
Chinese universities shut the door on North Korean students<\/strong><\/h5>\n
US student trapped in Indiana cave for three days<\/strong><\/h5>\n