By Elizabeth Redden. British citizens voted on Thursday for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union, ushering in a period of uncertainty for universities. The margin was 52 to 48 percent. Read more...

By Elizabeth Redden. As British citizens prepare to go to the polls on Thursday to vote on a possible departure from the European Union, the vast majority of academics report plans to vote to remain in the E.U. Read more...

By Elizabeth Redden. Students have expressed outrage over the University of Sydney's plan to close its arts campus and move students to the University of New South Wales as part of a planned merger agreement between the two institutions scheduled to take effect at the beginning of the 2017 academic year, The Sydney Morning Herald reported. Read more...

By Elizabeth Redden. A group of Australian research universities known as the Group of Eight issued a policy paper on Wednesday calling for the government to “moderate growth in degree level participation, while opening up a wider range of opportunities, including at the subdegree level in both vocational and higher education.” Read more...

By Elizabeth Redden. Universities that set up shop globally should work to uphold principles such as academic freedom, gender equity and freedom of speech -- but they sometimes compromise, scholars argue. Read more...

By Elizabeth Redden. ACT will not schedule a makeup date following the cancellation of its June 11 test administrations in Hong Kong and South Korea due to a leak of test materials. Read more...

By Elizabeth Redden. South Korean students and scientists are fighting a proposal to eliminate exemptions to compulsory military service for science and engineering graduate students, Nature News reported. Read more...

By Elizabeth Redden. Michael Feige, 58, was a sociologist and anthropologist who specialized in Israeli society. His book Settling in the Hearts: Jewish Fundamentalism in the Occupied Territories (Wayne State University Press, 2009) won the Association for Israel Studies’ Shapiro Prize for the best book in Israel studies in 2010. Read more...

By Elizabeth Redden. During the time attendees have been gathered for the biennial Scholars at Risk congress, news broke that a professor from Montreal’s Concordia University has been imprisoned in Iran. A leader of a Pakistani law college was shot dead by unknown assailants on motorcycles. An Israeli sociology and anthropology professor was among those killed in an attack by Palestinian gunmen on a Tel Aviv restaurant and shopping complex. Read more...

By Elizabeth Redden. A new law in China would make cheating on the high-stakes national college entrance exam punishable by up to a seven-year jail sentence, The New York Times reported. Student and parent reaction to the law is mixed, with some praising it as a way to deter cheating and others believing that a seven-year jail sentence is too harsh. Read more...