By Elizabeth Redden. The number of Indian citizens receiving student visas from the United Kingdom increased this fall for the first time since 2010, Times Higher Education reported. More...
18 décembre 2017
18 décembre 2017
Supreme Court Allows Travel Ban to Go Into Effect
By Elizabeth Redden. The Supreme Court on Monday issued an order permitting the third iteration of the Trump administration’s travel ban to go into full effect. The ban, announced by presidential proclamation in September, bars all travel by prospective immigrants from six Muslim-majority nations, plus North Korea, while imposing varying entry restrictions or enhanced vetting requirements on nonimmigrant travelers, including visiting students and scholars, from the affected nations. More...
18 décembre 2017
Rhodes University Won't Change Name
By Elizabeth Redden. The governing council for Rhodes University, in South Africa, voted 15 to 9 not to change the university’s name following years of debate, the Johannesburg-based TimesLIVE reported Wednesday. More...
18 décembre 2017
State Department to Revamp Foreign Travel Warnings
By Elizabeth Redden. The U.S. Department of State will revamp its foreign travel warnings in January, CNN reported. The current system of travel warnings and alerts will be replaced with a four-tiered system in which every country will be rated according to the level of security risk, with level one being “exercise normal precautions,” level two being “exercise increased caution,” level three being “reconsider travel” and level four being “do not travel.” All warnings will be of an advisory nature. More...
18 décembre 2017
Brexit Deal Seen as 'Welcome News' for Universities
By Elizabeth Redden. An agreement reached in the first phase of Brexit negotiations would allow European citizens living in the United Kingdom as of the date it withdraws from the E.U. to retain their residency rights even if they leave the U.K. for up to five years. It would also allow the U.K. to continue to participate in E.U. science and student exchange programs through the end of the current budget cycle in 2020. More...
18 décembre 2017
Suit Against American Studies Group Dismissed
By Elizabeth Redden. The recently dismissed case is one of two lawsuits filed against the association over its support for an academic boycott of Israel. The other one, filed by four former and current members, is ongoing. More...
18 décembre 2017
Iranian Court Upholds Death Penalty for Researcher
By Elizabeth Redden. Human rights groups are reporting that Iran’s Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence for a disaster medicine researcher, Ahmadreza Djalali. More...
18 décembre 2017
Chinese Scholars Create, and Disband, Communist Unit in U.S.
By Elizabeth Redden. A group of visiting Chinese scholars briefly established a branch of the Chinese Communist Party at the University of California, Davis before shutting it down, the South China Morning Post reported. More...
18 décembre 2017
Did Michigan State Look the Other Way?
By Scott Jaschik. As former gymnastics national team doctor pleads guilty to molestation charges, some ask whether university let abuse continue by failing to respond adequately to complaints about his conduct. More...
18 décembre 2017
Murder-Suicide at Penn State's Beaver Campus
By Scott Jaschik. A food services employee at Pennsylvania State University's Beaver campus was shot and murdered there Wednesday by a man who then killed himself, the university announced. More...
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