Academic freedom

Move follows government accusation that ideological and political work at some top institutions was weak

Intense polarisation of Turkish diaspora, plus online harassment, means refugee scholars feel they are being watched

Scholars at Risk counts 257 assaults and persecutions on higher education communities over past year

Publishers should consult with journal editors over censorship requests, says China Quarterly committee member

Social scientists are innovating to ensure their research is relevant, but more must be done, says Rick Delbridge

Initiative urges government researchers to send findings through encrypted channels to ensure their preservation

Op-ed on statues of eugenicists and researchers who denied rights to non-white people branded ‘disastrous’

Glasgow vice-chancellor Sir Anton Muscatelli defends ‘cost-efficient’ sector driving UK growth

No tax inspector or police officer can claim rights over what they write for their jobs, so why should academics, asks Gabriel Egan

Louise Richardson says it is ‘completely mendacious’ to suggest higher tuition fees have driven inflation in executive pay

Thousands of university staff are set to pay more towards pensions under proposals

Seven top universities establish political monitoring units in response to state ‘rectification reports’

It is time to consider how we can stop senior academics bullying their way on to research papers, says Trisha Greenhalgh

Brain-boosting drugs can help students and academics alike to unlock their potential, says Hemmel Amrania

With the Hungarian government clamping down on universities and championing labourers over philosophers, David Matthews meets those living with the consequences

Creeping political interference in universities, from the UK to Hungary and the US, is part of a worrying shift in attitudes towards higher education

Campus Antifascist Network plans self-defence training for scholars who may be challenged by white supremacists

'Intense' reaction from scholars worldwide drives publisher to back down on article block

Hundreds sign petition to boycott journals published by Cambridge University Press amid censorship row

Carol Christ, new leader of the Californian university, also plans ‘free speech year’ for students and staff to engage with topic

Threats over content available in China reveal difficult line academic community must tread

Publisher pulls articles from academic website in China at request of communist government agency

Kurdistan shows that post-conflict countries can build a thriving higher education sector by working with foreign partners, says Dlawer Ala’Aldeen

Team sent to investigate rule changes that could close Budapest’s Central European University finds that they were made ‘without very strong reasons’

Huang Jing was accused of ‘covertly advancing the agenda of a foreign country at Singapore’s expense’

Universities, funders, rankers and individual academics all need to act to stamp out predatory publishers, says Roger Watson

Vitriol directed at Cambridge professor of Classics on Twitter is part of wider battle to politicise diversity, says Conrad Brunstrom

Many students aren’t reporting sexual harassment or assault on campus despite efforts to tackle the problem, say Hareem Ghani and Graham Towl

Prevent monitoring and defeat of legal challenge shows that anti-extremism policy is not limiting academic freedom, says Hifsa Harron-Iqbal

The UK's ‘red line’ on free movement of labour may prevent its students from participating in the Erasmus exchange programme, says European Union law expert

Research finds undergraduates ‘self-sort’ by gender and ethnicity for group work

London Economics shows how less well-off graduates will repay more than higher-earning peers

University attacked by 750 academics for forcing entire professoriate to reapply for jobs

Higher proportion of black students in London may contribute to capital’s higher dropout rates, says SMF

Survey finds majority of Americans on political Right currently believe universities have negative effect on country

The pressure of producing high-quality research publications spoils the long vacation for many academics, says Rachel Moss

Court rules that professors suing the state did not provide evidence that presence of guns would impact on free speech

Calls among graduates to limit student numbers are not selfish, but may instead reflect concern about the value of university education, say Duncan Watson and Robert Webb

Hakan Şükür has honorary doctorate removed over his alleged support for a banned political movement

Academics who think they can do the work of professional staff better than professional staff themselves are not showing the kind of respect they expect from others

US proposals spark worry for researchers reading Arabic or foreign language texts, or works critical of the Trump administration

After incidents on US campuses where students have called for scholars’ dismissal, professor sees need to update concept of academic freedom

HEC Paris’ Alberto Alemanno says academics who influence policy ‘often’ do it in return for money

Campus safe spaces are bad for democracy and open debate, but academics must respond to the genuine concerns they represent, says James Wicks

Hermann Hauser calls on vice-chancellors to ‘take a stand against pseudoscience’

International charity flags ‘unprecedented’ numbers of academics sacked since last year’s failed military coup

Country is latest European state to take action against the garment

Minister’s proposal has already had a ‘chilling effect’, researchers say

New leader of Canada’s Conservative Party, Andrew Scheer, promises research grant cuts to universities that offer safe spaces or speaker bans, says Creso Sá

There are now so many regulations to abide by in higher education, it's a wonder there is any academic freedom left, says Steve Wheeler

Stephan Lewandowsky warns that academics can ‘lose control’ of their data and see it used as ‘political propaganda’

Budapest institution says it will take in students for 2017-18, but its future is still not secure

Ahmadreza Djalali is being used as a cautionary example to other scholars working outside Iran, academics claim

One researcher urges academics to put concerns aside and back Prevent counter-radicalisation strategy, while others say it ‘doesn’t work’

UCU survey finds British-based researchers perceive lesser protection for academic freedom compared with continental peers

European Parliament calls for start of proceedings that could strip Hungary of EU voting rights

Overseas members and evaluators excluded in what critics claim is a power grab

Taylor and Francis move to replace editor and withdraw his paper threatens ‘scientific integrity’, critics claim

In Hungary, Poland, Germany and elsewhere, populist politicians are taking aim at the discipline