India Higher Education: India’s Education Ministry has approved five Centres of Excellence to preserve and study classical languages—Classical Assamese (Tezpur University), Bengali (Visva-Bharati), Marathi (Deccan College), Pali (Central University of Odisha) and Prakrit (Central University of Gujarat)—with support for research, digitisation and wider dissemination. Student Protests & Governance: In New Delhi, youth groups including the Gen Z-led Cockroach Janta Party and NSUI staged demonstrations demanding the resignation of the Election Commission chief over voter-roll revisions; police detained dozens and kept protest sites sealed. Higher Ed Policy in the US: A US judge temporarily blocked the Department of Education from releasing names of individual foreign donors to US colleges, citing reliance on earlier non-public assurances. Campus Safety Shock: Los Angeles Unified faced scrutiny after a student’s death amid claims of thousands of fights recorded in district spreadsheets. International Education Links: Cebu Pacific hosted “Girls in Aviation Day” for 120 Filipina students, while Chinese and German youth used music to deepen school-to-school ties. Global Skills & Recognition: Votualevu College (Fiji) reached the Zayed Sustainability Prize global finals as an East Asia-Pacific finalist.