By Elizabeth Redden. The U.S. embassy has suspended all non-immigrant visa processing in Turkey after the arrest of a consulate employee, prompting Turkey to respond by stopping visa processing for Americans, The New York Times reported. More...

By Elizabeth Redden. International students make up the large majority of full-time students in many graduate science- and engineering-related programs, and their numbers have been rising much faster than the number of domestic students, according to a new report from the National Foundation for American Policy, a research organization focused on immigration and the economy. More...

By Elizabeth Redden. A federal judge in Hawaii on Tuesday issued a temporary restraining order blocking the implementation of a new iteration of the Trump administration’s travel ban. The ban, which was scheduled to go fully into effect today, would block all would-be travelers from North Korea and Syria in addition to prohibiting all immigrant travel and imposing various restrictions on certain types of nonimmigrant travel for nationals of Chad, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Venezuela, and Yemen. More...

By Elizabeth Redden. Leaders of Central European University held a press conference Tuesday where they called on the Hungarian government to sign an agreement that would enable the university to continue to operate over the long term in Budapest. More...

By Elizabeth Redden. Nearly 800 college and university presidents signed a letter to leaders of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives calling on them to “pass a long-term legislative fix as soon as possible to protect Dreamers,” undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children. More...

By Elizabeth Redden. China is overhauling its national college entrance exam, the gaokao, with plans to be finished by 2020, the People’s Daily, the official newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party, and Sixth Tone, a state-funded English-language media outlet, reported. More...

By Elizabeth Redden. Ten of the University of Oxford’s 32 colleges, and six of the University of Cambridge’s colleges, did not admit a single black British student with A-level qualifications in 2015, The Guardian reported, prompting a former education minister to accuse the universities of “social apartheid.” More...

By Elizabeth Redden. A professor at the University of Otago, in New Zealand, said she was initially denied entry to the U.S. after the academic honorarium she was to receive from a U.S. university came under scrutiny. More...

By Elizabeth Redden. British academics accused a Euro-skeptic member of Parliament of “McCarthyite” behavior after he wrote to university leaders asking for the names of professors who teach European affairs, “with particular reference to Brexit” -- Britain's planned exit from the European Union -- and for copies of syllabi and links to online lectures on this topic, The Guardian reported. More...

By Rachael Pells for Times Higher Education. More than half of all research papers published by academics in France and Britain now have at least one international co-author, the latest figures reveal. 
Analysis by publishing giant Elsevier showed that both countries pushed past the 50 percent mark for the first time in 2014, the most recent year for which complete data are available. In France, 51.6 percent of articles had at least one overseas collaborator, with the U.K. 0.3 percentage points behind. More...