Academic freedom

Mari Sundli Tveit says academia depends on ‘openness, cross-border cooperation and mobility’

Debate risks legitimising dehumanising ideologies, but rebutting such views is how progress has always been made, says Eric Heinze

In latest escalation, Republicans insist documents presented by university to date do not go far enough

A competing human rights framework would help the likes of Jo Phoenix and her critics into a dialogue shaped by active listening, says Andy Hargreaves 

Academic leaders should stay out of politics to encourage debate and promote expertise, says Daniel Diermeier

Administrators toughen policies and responses after watching Ivy League presidents ousted

Supporters of Ghassan Hage claim his dismissal follows a ‘smear campaign’ responding to his condemnation of ‘war crimes’ in Palestinian territories

David Miller argued his views on Israel were a protected characteristic in ‘landmark’ case

Lawyers say ruling shows need for universities to intervene to protect staff, but how does that fit with free speech duties?

Scholar found to have faced ‘hostile environment’ due to gender-critical views warns ruling has implications for all universities, but fears more troubling cases to come

‘Heightened’ crackdown on academic freedom expected as party committees merge with presidents’ offices on leading campuses

Amid creeping political influence over universities, both academics and students are oddly quiet, says Mukhtar Ahmad

Vice-chancellor announces ‘major independent review’ after acknowledging ‘in several areas we fell very short’

Dismissal over workload dispute ‘merely the latest ploy’ in Australian university’s long-running campaign to oust ‘conservative academic’

A change in atmosphere has encouraged academics to return to the country where they were once maligned, but funding pressures and issues with polarisation continue

European Commission stresses that ‘with academic freedom comes academic responsibility’, aiming to ‘de-risk, not to de-couple’ scientific collaboration

Jamus Jerome Lim, who raised issue in Singaporean parliament, says diverse ideas must be ‘allowed to circulate and be subject to debate’

Government says that higher education institutions manage their own events but that it might advise them to “respect…wider social norms”

Codes’ vague, narrow and toothless provisions are failing to promote the safety and well-being of all university community members, says Richard Joseph

As high-profile case drags on, legal experts say issues regulator has faced are a harbinger of what is to come

While Republicans seek momentum from fiery hearing and Penn ousting, professors gain clarity on the size of the fight ahead

New complaints scheme may help ensure more open debates on campuses in time but Gaza crisis necessitates action now, say campaigners

People ‘backing off’ from higher education should ‘have another look’, says departing Universities Australia boss

Inclusion of symbol of Palestinian resistance on flyer leads university to pull permission for staff-student session discussing current situation

But institutions may face paying regulator’s costs under new proposals outlined by England’s new free speech champion

UNC chancellor’s move to Michigan State also comes after years of trustee interference

‘Branding opportunity of a lifetime’ raises awareness of Gulf state’s campuses

University of Tehran plans outposts in India, Iraq, Syria and Georgia, plus closer ties with Russia and China

Ivy League university denies Joan Donovan’s claim that huge donation turned leaders against her

Criticism of lecture shows close link between government foreign policy and attacks on freedom of expression, according to scholars

Brown University becomes centrepiece for ending financial ties to Israel, after three Palestinian college students shot in Vermont

Universities have long taken diverse stances on difficult current issues, proud of their ability to intervene thoughtfully and respectfully, says Harvey Graff

Sacked neuropathologist Manuel Graeber says university was happy with his work before he lodged disclosure about management

Free tuition also to be switched from first to last year of tertiary study, under pact between new governing parties

With potentially worrying changes to Australia’s research security arrangements odds-on to proceed, universities want clarification on amendments

Mexican president Andrés Manuel López-Obrador has expanded university access but is accused of ideological attacks on institutions, overly zealous corruption clampdowns and a misguided power grab over research policy. Ahead of next year’s election, Tom Williams assesses the mood in Mexico City

Court case raises conflict between academic freedom and universities’ duty of care, says barrister

The rise of antisemitism on campus is the inevitable consequence of leaders’ failure to call out the Hamas atrocities for what they were, says Joseph Mintz

Why are advocates for free speech over gender issues so silent when it comes to the right to speak out in support of Palestine, asks Maryam Aldossari 

As seven-year case against South Korean professor Park Yu-ha concludes, academics say the deep political divisions that lay behind it are not going away any time soon

If politicians and donors disagree with student or faculty views, they should challenge their soundness, not threaten defunding, says Richard Joseph

Auckland failed to give public commentary the level of occupational protection that would be mandatory in the laboratory, says colleague of Siouxsie Wiles

‘As a female scholar, that is doubly insulting to me, to be reduced to being someone’s wife,’ says researcher barred from National University of Singapore

Education a better approach than ‘political censorship’, universities told

As country proposes tough new sanctions for sharing regulated technologies, except with the UK and US, sceptic asks whether nuclear submarine pact is worth the trouble

Institutions ‘must do more’ to ensure safety of students on their campuses and see that learners know the repercussions of actions abroad, says scholar

State disavows its own idea that professors can’t discuss reproductive rights, but wary faculty persist with lawsuit

Move is latest in sector-wide process of ‘neutering Hong Kong universities’ by giving legislators say over their decisions, says academic

Palestinian universities in West Bank face losing scholars, while Netanyahu opponents also predicted to leave Israel

Brain researcher’s clash with University of Sydney administration follows exit from Imperial in earlier whistleblower row

The Gaza situation is no exception to the rule that truth-seeking requires the marrying of free expression with inclusion and respect, says Duncan Ivison

Government micromanagement of teacher education is unprecedented interference in day-to-day academia. Will your subject be next, asks Viv Ellis

Dame Ottoline Leyser issues statement to make position ‘crystal clear’ as academic concern mounts over government pressure

While political protest a time-honoured tradition, ferocity of pro-Israel onslaught leaves academia to mull its true independence

Dame Ottoline Leyser’s acceptance of ministerial demands is likely to anger scholars who claim Michelle Donelan’s criticism undermines academic freedom

Union members at UCL claim to have been the ‘victim of a smear campaign’ as higher education minister calls them Hamas’ ‘useful idiots’

Increased persecution of scholars in Iran and Afghanistan led to more than 400 attacks being perpetrated against academia globally, says Scholars at Risk report

Palestinian scholars in Israel facing threats of violence and calls for their removal describe atmosphere of persecution

Science secretary’s condemnation of ‘extremist posts’ by UKRI equality advisers has led to accusations of ministerial ‘bullying’ and censorship

The special administrative region’s status as an international crossroads has been severely shaken by the National Security Law and stringent Covid lockdowns. But sector leaders remain buoyant about boosting ‘non-local’ recruitment – and not just from China. Pola Lem reports