By Elizabeth Redden. The vice chancellor of Warwick University, in England, apologized for the university’s handling of complaints from female students regarding rape threats after an independent review faulted the university’s response, the BBC reported. More...

By Elizabeth Redden. An Australian student who was deported from North Korea for allegedly spying dismissed the allegation and said it was "pretty obviously" false, The New York Times reported. More...

By Elizabeth Redden. As Education Department opens investigations into whether universities complied with law requiring federal reporting of foreign gifts and contracts, colleges call for more clarity on what the law requires. More...

By Elizabeth Redden. A lecturer at Afghanistan's Kabul University was arrested on the suspicion that he was recruiting students to join the Islamic State, Stars and Stripes reported, citing the country's National Directorate of Security. More...

By Elizabeth Redden. Justice Department officials reversed course Friday and told a federal judge they would continue to seek the addition of a question on citizenship to the 2020 census -- but said they didn’t know what rationale they would offer, The New York Times reported. More...

By Elizabeth Redden. The number of Chinese students applying for undergraduate study in the United Kingdom jumped by 30 percent this year, according to data released Thursday by the Universities and Colleges Admission Service, a centralized admission service for U.K. higher education. More...

By Elizabeth Redden. A study of self-reported criminal victimization rates among study abroad students found that victimization rates were generally low, but they were moderate to high in regard to incidents of sexual harassment, unwanted touching and property theft (without force). More...

By Elizabeth Redden. A man has confessed to abducting, raping and killing an American scientist who was in Crete for an academic conference, The Washington Post reported, citing Greek authorities. More...

By Elizabeth Redden. An anthropologist at Paris’s prestigious Sciences Po University with dual French and Iranian nationality has been arrested and denied contact with French consular officials in Iran, France 24 reported, citing France’s foreign ministry. More...