By Elizabeth Redden. Australian university officials are urging caution regarding a proposal by the New South Wales government to offer incentives to encourage international students to study in regional areas of the state outside Sydney so as to relieve population pressures in the capital city, The Sydney Morning Herald reported. More...
By Elizabeth Redden. A chemistry professor at Sweden’s Lund University intervened to rescue a doctoral student from an Islamic State warzone, The Local reported. More...
By Elizabeth Redden. The head of a Japanese medical school apologized for giving preference in admissions decisions to children of alumni, The Japan Times reported. More...
By Elizabeth Redden. The Britain-based publisher Taylor & Francis reversed itself on a decision to decline to publish an article in a mathematics journal due to sanctions on Iran, where one of the article’s authors is based. More...
By Elizabeth Redden. A Russian national who pleaded guilty Thursday to acting as a foreign agent in the U.S. entered the country in 2016 on a student visa and completed a master’s degree at American University. More...
By Elizabeth Redden. Current regulations dating to 1999 hold that an immigrant can be deemed inadmissible or ineligible for a change in immigration status if they are determined to be "likely to become primarily dependent on the government for subsistence." Whereas the government has previously taken into account the acceptance of cash benefits in determining whether an immigrant is likely to be a "public charge," the proposed rule would consider any use of a wider range of noncash public benefits -- including use of food stamps, nonemergency Medicaid and public housing assistance -- as “heavily weighed negative factors” in making these determinations. More...
By Elizabeth Redden. A review of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s collaborations with Saudi Arabia recommends continuing the university’s relationships with individuals and entities in the kingdom despite concerns about the government’s record of human rights abuses and its role in the war in Yemen that has put millions of people at risk of starvation. More...
By Elizabeth Redden. Scholars say their field is coming under increasing pressures from forces outside the academy who want to delegitimize it. More...
By Elizabeth Redden. Central European University says the Hungarian government has forced it to move its main campus from Budapest to Vienna. More...
By Elizabeth Redden. The University of Michigan will close its Confucius Institute next year when the current agreement governing the institute expires. More...
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