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More than 600 academics worldwide are protesting the threatened closure of the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev’s department of politics and government, sending a petition to Gideon Sa’ar, Israel’s education minister, to halt the move. A subcommittee of Israel’s Council for Higher Education has…

Israel plans to spend about $47-million to double the college enrollment of ultra-Orthodox Jewish students to 12,000 by 2017, reports Ynet News. Twelve new campuses for the students will be built near existing colleges. They will offer similar courses as the host institutions but maintain a strict…

McGill University has cleared a former health researcher at the university of misconduct over allegations that he colluded with the asbestos industry, reports CBC News. The university says its investigation found no evidence that John Corbett McDonald, who is now retired, improperly collected data…

Police raided three teachers’ colleges in western Mexico on Monday after dozens of students had taken over campuses to protest changes in the curriculum, reports the Associated Press. The takeovers started over a week ago to protest the colleges’ plans to require English and computer-science…

Public universities in Sri Lanka reopened on Monday after the government agreed to terms with striking faculty members, reports the Colombo Page. The country’s Higher Education Ministry shut down the campuses in August, when negotiations stalled between the ministry and the Federation of University…

The University of Port Harcourt, in southern Nigeria, has been shut down because of violent student protests following the lynching of four students by local villagers, reports the BBC. The four were accused of stealing laptops and mobile phones from people in the village of Aluu, a charge that the…

A Chinese couple is suing an American education consultant to whom the two allegedly gave more than $2-million on promises to get their sons into an Ivy League institution, reports The Boston Globe. In a lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court in Boston, Gerald and Lily Chow have accused Mark…

The second-largest university in the Afghan capital of Kabul has been rocked by student protests and violence after President Hamid Karzai’s decision to change its name from the Kabul Education University to the Martyr of Peace Professor Burhanuddin Rabbani University, reports The New York Times.…

Spanish police officers have arrested a man who was reportedly planning a bomb attack on the University of the Balearic Islands, report the BBC and the Associated Press. The university’s rector told the BBC that the 21-year-old suspect had no reported connection to the university, nor had the…

The California Institute of Technology has retained the top spot in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings for the second year in a row. Oxford and Stanford tied for second place, pushing ahead of Harvard University, which came next on the list.