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Access Broadens, Dropouts Soar

Since Australian universities won the right to enroll any students they deemed qualified, the proportion of students failing out has spiked, especially from online programs.

Wanderers and Homebodies

Analysis tracks which countries' academics are mobile internationally.

Inequality Persists in South Africa

Study finds that class has joined race as a dividing line at universities.

Chinese Communists Preferred

Two job ads for Kean U's campus in China state preference for Chinese Communist Party members, while the standard employment application requests information regarding political affiliation and personal details that are generally illegal to ask for under U.S. antidiscrimination law.

Russian Crackdown?

Russian universities want to internationalize, but a broader campaign on foreign funding and influence isn't helping.

Quota for In-Staters

A new program at a public university in New Jersey will have a cap on the number of state residents as institution looks overseas for students.

Good Teaching in Europe

The incentives for universities vary by country.

Europe's Research Competition

Scientists based in Britain win more grants than those of other countries. But Belgium, Germany, Israel and Switzerland have some boasting rights as well.