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Procrastination and Bogus Excuses
In Germany, university students who delay their work are more likely than others to lie about it and to engage in other forms of academic misconduct, study finds.
A Cheating Scandal With Diplomatic Dimensions
Saudi Arabian students are snared in a grade-change scandal at Montana Tech that became a diplomatic incident.
Universities Under Attack
New report documents a range of types of attacks on higher education worldwide, including killings, imprisonments, wrongful dismissals and expulsions, and restrictions on the movements of students and scholars.
From Beijing to Puget Sound
The University of Washington announces a new joint institute with China's Tsinghua University -- and $40 million in funding from Microsoft.
U.S. For-Profits in Brazil
Amid enrollment and revenue declines at home, American for-profit education companies have looked abroad, including to Brazil. But can -- and should -- Brazil's boom in proprietary education continue?
Global Approach to Ending Poverty
Some of the top poverty scholars in northern regions are now working with emerging academics from more southern countries, in hopes of expanding research on poverty.
Professors and Their Grant Targets
Suicide of a researcher leads to more discussion of financial expectations on professors at British universities.
Changes Planned for Foreign Student Work Program
A senator's letter provides insight into possible changes planned for the optional practical training program that allows international students to work in the U.S. postgraduation.