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A unanimous US Supreme Court held that state laws establishing separate public schools for Black and white children violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment - "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal" - partially overruling Plessy v. Ferguson and its separate-but-equal doctrine.

A 5-1 vote closed Excel High School, Community Academy, Mary Lyon Pilot High School and the Dever Elementary at the end of 2025-26, moving about 1,300 students.

A federal judge in Boston barred the Trump administration from giving any effect to its 22 May 2025 revocation of Harvard's Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification, keeping Harvard able to enroll international students.

Judge Allison Burroughs ruled that freezing and terminating nearly $2.2 billion in federal research grants to Harvard violated the First Amendment and Title VI, and barred further retaliatory cuts.

A 6-1 vote shuts the Lee Academy Pilot School, Another Course to College and the Community Academy of Science and Health after 2026-27, affecting about 800 students.

AP-HP started construction on the former Stellantis plant site in Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine after two years of demolition and decontamination, with the prefect of Seine-Saint-Denis signing the hospital's building permit on 24 September 2025. The campus will bring together a new hospital taking the medical and surgical work of the Bichat and Beaujon hospitals, a Universite Paris Cite health faculty and student housing, complete by 2032.

The 2026 Grammy U Conference in New York ran three days for the first time, headlined by WILLOW with Jacob Collier and Natasha Bedingfield, Towa Bird and Abigail Morris, and a Mariah the Scientist showcase.

The Obama Foundation's 19.3-acre campus in Jackson Park, built around a 225-foot museum tower, took its first visitors on Juneteenth, the day after a dedication ceremony at John Lewis Plaza. At roughly $850 million it is the most expensive presidential library yet built; ground was broken in September 2021 after years of lawsuits over the Jackson Park site.

Harvard, Tishman Speyer and Breakthrough Properties cut the ribbon on the first phase of the Enterprise Research Campus in Allston: two commercial laboratory buildings called OneMilestone, the 343-apartment Verra, the Atlas Hotel, Harvard's David Rubenstein Treehouse conference centre, 40,000 square feet of retail and more than two acres of public open space. It is the opening move on a 36-acre site, with a Phase B of labs, offices and housing still to be permitted.

Judge Richard Stearns threw out the Justice Department's Title VI suit seeking to claw back Harvard's federal funding, finding it had not pled any ongoing violation after the government's June 2025 notice.

The FY2027 application window for the NIH Extramural Loan Repayment Programs runs from 1 September to 19 November 2026, with the old six subcategories merged into clinical research, pediatric research and a renamed FOCUS track.

PISA 2025, released on 8 September 2026, tested about 760,000 students in science, reading and maths, with an OECD average of 482 in science and mathematics down 46 points since 2003.

About 2,000 two-year-olds in four boroughs started free, full-day 2-K care on the first day of school, funded by an initial $73 million from the state. Mayor Mamdani plans 12,000 seats next year and a universal program after that.

Georgia Tech cut the ribbon on Tech Square Phase 3, a 416,500-square-foot complex of the 18-storey George Tower for the Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering and the 14-storey Scheller Tower for the business school, joined by a shared lift core. Its first three floors had opened to the campus in January 2026.

The Recording Academy and Grammy Museum announced 25 music teachers from 25 cities as semifinalists for the 2027 Music Educator Award; 10 finalists follow in November.

Anthropic launched a US$100 million program targeting 10,000 Frontier Deployed Engineers by the end of 2027. Customers and partners nominate existing engineers; this is a training target, not 10,000 new Anthropic hires.

The US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit is to hear the Trump administration's appeal of the injunction keeping Harvard able to enroll international students, in the Moakley Courthouse's en banc courtroom.

Caterpillar announced up to US$10 million for manufacturing and technician training with Central Carolina Community College and the Sanford Area Growth Alliance. The allocation supports current and future workers; participant and job-placement targets were not published.

Applications for the 2026-27 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program close between 19 and 23 October 2026 at 8 p.m. Eastern, depending on field, for about 1,500 new fellowships paying a $37,000 stipend a year.

Berlin Science Week runs 1-10 November 2026 with 300+ mostly free events from about 140 organisations and a festival centre at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt on 6-8 November.

The $915 million museum on the bank of the Parramatta River opens on Saturday 7 November 2026 with five exhibitions and more than 3,000 objects, followed by a 23-day opening festival. Entry to the museum and most exhibitions is free, and everyone under 16 gets free entry to exhibitions.

Brazil's national secondary-school exam, the Enem, is held on 8 and 15 November 2026 at about 10,000 test sites, with automatic registration for public-school seniors.

The Suneung, the national college entrance exam for the 2027 academic year, runs on Thursday 19 November 2026 from 08:40 in five periods, with offices opening late and flights held back during the English listening test.

The last five of the eight Batch 1 buildings in Phase 1 of the Hong Kong Park of the Hetao Shenzhen-Hong Kong Science and Technology Innovation Co-operation Zone begin coming on stream at the Lok Ma Chau Loop. Two wet laboratory buildings and a talent accommodation block were finished first and the Hong Kong Park was officially opened in December 2025.

The University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing Jiaotong University, China University of Geosciences (Beijing) and Beijing Forestry University began building Xiong'an campuses in November 2023 under a 'one university, two campuses' model that keeps their Beijing sites and shares staff, libraries and labs. Fifteen Beijing universities are to have campuses there, all of them finished by 2030.

The 400,000-square-foot replacement for the Don Mills science centre is rising on Toronto's waterfront, pairing a mainland building with an integrated pod complex and a restored Cinesphere. Ontario's auditor general costed the move at roughly $1.4 billion against $1.3 billion to keep the old building, and shovels went in the ground in May 2026.