By Elizabeth Redden. The fees paid by international students -- and the colleges that host them -- to the U.S. government may increase soon. More...
22 juillet 2018
22 juillet 2018
Accused Russian Agent Entered U.S. on Student Visa
By Elizabeth Redden. A Russian national who was charged Monday with conspiracy to act as an agent of Russia without registering as a foreign agent entered the U.S. in 2016 on a student visa. More...
22 juillet 2018
Israeli University Officials Protest Blocked Appointment
By Elizabeth Redden. Israel’s science minister, Ofir Akunis, blocked the appointment of Yael Amitai, a prominent brain scientist, to a binational German-Israeli science committee because Amitai signed a petition 10 years ago supporting soldiers who refused to serve in the occupied West Bank, Haaretz reported. More...
22 juillet 2018
Closures of China-Foreign Programs
By Elizabeth Redden. China's Ministry of Education approves the termination of more than 200 Chinese-foreign partnerships. An expert says it's a cumulative list of all terminations since 2006. More...
22 juillet 2018
Does Huawei's Research Funding Pose a Threat?
By Elizabeth Redden. The head of a Chinese telecommunications company has fired back after lawmakers sent a letter last week to Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos asking her to investigate ties between the company and American universities on the grounds that research partnerships “may pose a significant threat to national security.” More...
22 juillet 2018
Hong Kong University Keeps Controversial Mandarin Requirement
By Elizabeth Redden. Hong Kong Baptist University opted to keep a policy requiring students to take a three-part Mandarin course or pass a proficiency test in order to graduate despite student protests, the South China Morning Post reported. More...
22 juillet 2018
Supreme Court Upholds Trump's Travel Ban
By Elizabeth Redden. In case closely watched by higher education, justices find that Trump was within his authority in restricting entry to the U.S. for nationals from a group of mostly Muslim-majority countries. More...
22 juillet 2018
Eastern Michigan offers resident tuition rate to international undergraduates
By Elizabeth Redden. Eastern Michigan hopes resident tuition rates will attract many more international undergraduates. More...
22 juillet 2018
Asian Studies President Weighs in on Exclusionary Conference
By Elizabeth Redden. The president of the Association of Asian Studies last week wrote a column about the controversy surrounding the association’s upcoming conference in India. Hundreds of scholars have signed a letter criticizing the association’s response to an Indian government directive that Pakistani scholars be excluded from the conference, and a second letter has called for a boycott. More...
22 juillet 2018
Russian Agency Revokes Accreditation of Private University
By Elizabeth Redden. A Russian agency has revoked the accreditation of a prestigious private university, the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences (logo at right), “in what critics fear could further erode independent education in the country," The Moscow Times reported. The agency found 11 of the institution’s bachelor's and master’s programs to be in violation of state educational standards. More...
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