By Elizabeth Redden. The majority of university systems in Europe are under growing funding pressure, a new "Public Funding Observatory" report from the European University Association finds. Read more...

By Elizabeth Redden. U.S. Government Accountability Office examines American universities’ policies and practices on academic and other freedoms for their educational programs in China. Read more...

By Elizabeth Redden. Two international-student recruiters pleaded guilty to one count each of conspiracy to commit visa fraud in relation to their recruitment of foreign nationals to the University of Northern New Jersey, a sham “pay-to-stay” college created by the federal government as part of a sting operation. Read more...

By Elizabeth Redden. The Ghanaian government wants to remove a statue of Mohandas Gandhi from the University of Ghana campus in response to a petition drive from professors characterizing the Indian independence leader as racist, the Associated Press reported. The petition quotes from writings of Gandhi’s in which he refers to black South Africans as savages. Read more...

By Elizabeth Redden. Australian National University is trying to reduce its proportion of Chinese international students as part of a “diversification strategy” launched in 2015, The Sydney Morning Herald reported. Read more...

By Elizabeth Redden. The London School of Economics and Political Science said some of its professors have been told they can’t advise the Foreign Office on Britain's departure from the European Union because they are not British, the BBC reported. Read more...

By Elizabeth Redden. A large private college chain in India is expanding into the U.S., having purchased a campus in New York and proposed to buy two more, the Associated Press reported. Read more...

By Elizabeth Redden. All six U.S.-based Nobel Prize winners so far this year hail from outside the U.S., with five of the six coming from the U.K. Read more...

By Elizabeth Redden. About 180,000 students worldwide are enrolled in international branch campuses, according to highlights released from a forthcoming report by the Observatory on Borderless Education and the Cross-Border Education Research Team (C-BERT) at the State University of New York at Albany. Read more...

By Elizabeth Redden. The founding president of a new network of nine research universities in Europe says the member institutions are united by “the conviction that there is no trade-off between research excellence by global standards, broad access for students and an inclusive academic environment and societal impact in research, teaching and outreach.” Read more...