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Two new government reports look at questions of Chinese government control over Confucius Institutes hosted by U.S. campuses.

As the date for the U.K.'s planned withdrawal from the European Union approaches, universities plan for a "no-deal" Brexit while hoping that won't happen.

At a fictional institution, officials obsess over assessments of research quality, pander to donors and equate educating students with job training.

Shift at Melbourne University Publishing raises question of whether nonacademic books can be used to subsidize academic publishing.

The Oregonian reports on a series of cases in which Saudi students at U.S. colleges were accused of crimes but disappeared before facing U.S. criminal charges. Two senators introduce legislation calling for investigation of Saudi government's role.

New enrollments of international students at U.S. graduate schools declined by 1 percent from fall 2017 to fall 2018.

Spurred by Khashoggi killing, MIT says it will strengthen review of collaborations in countries where governments are engaged in human rights violations but won't override faculty prerogative or terminate existing Saudi-sponsored projects.

Scholar at University of Cambridge hopes to use her naked body to go beyond what she can do in academic writing.