Academic freedom

Students are being hoodwinked into enrolling on ‘trendy’ new degree programmes that are, according to one concerned academic, little more than a marketing exercise

Chinese students’ calls for the Tibetan leader to be barred from speaking at the University of California, San Diego show a flawed conception of accommodation and respect, says Ben Medeiros 

Polls show ebbing support for ruling Fidesz party after move against Central European University

Scientific council of France's CNRS recommends severing links over journal edict

Turkish president feted just days after almost 500 academics are sacked

While not all student-supervisor relationships end in disaster, permitting them infringes women’s right to education, participation and a safe work environment, say five female academics 

Universities must not be complacent about freedom of speech, and need to ensure students use it to drive change, says Bill Rammell 

Report raises concerns about academic freedom and funding structures

Boycotts betray free enquiry, but Viktor Orbán’s moves against the Central European University at least make them worth debating, says Eric Heinze

A right-wing philosopher in Texas tells John Gill how a minority of students can shut down debates and intimidate lecturers – and why he backs Trump

Students who grew up disinviting ideological difference on Facebook will naturally want to do the same on campus, says Darren Linvill

Universities should not be neutral about attempts to ‘no platform’ speakers. They must defend students’ right to hear orthodoxy challenged, says Steve Fuller

Former chancellor claims ‘politically correct’ students hold sway over ‘totally supine university authorities’

Electrical engineering professor Khalil Al-Halwachi jailed for 10 years on 'fabricated' weapons charges

Peer review process punishes academics who ‘challenge the dogma’ of their field, scientists claim

Hungarian prime minister says the ‘milk has curdled’ with institution’s support for immigrants

The American-Hungarian institution proves that learning through diversity is not an impossible dream, says Marvin Lazerson

Global academic leaders have found themselves powerless against Hungary’s government

The world is dotted with institutions that have strong US links, but they often have domestic opponents, who may be watching the case of CEU closely

Are university ‘bias response teams’ jeopardising free speech on campus? asks Jemimah Steinfeld

Sociologist is reportedly still blocked from leaving the country

Government bar on Chongyi Feng returning to Australia increases doubts over country's openness

Warnings that state involvement in funding decisions is harming institutions’ abilities to compete

Parliament approves legislation that institution says would force it out of Budapest

Institution has tightened security after an academic and seven students died last year

Critics fear global event risks ‘trivialising and politicising’ research

George Soros-funded institution could be ‘first victim’ of increasingly illiberal world order, observers say

Andrew Potter's article lambasting Quebec's 'social malaise' was heavily criticised

Sole remaining pro-Israel speaker claims ‘semi-hysterical’ reaction has harmed academic debate

Texas hostelries are one of the few places where students cannot bring guns

Call to consider faith diversity alongside issues of gender and ethnicity

Alternative for Germany also wants to end funding for gender studies, saying discipline is not a serious subject

Canadian scholar urges universities to back off from policing what people do in private

Brussels-based scholar Ahmadreza Djalali has lost 27kg while in detention in Iran

Some scholars at Canadian university say comments ‘infringe on academic freedom’

Poll finds staff believe reforms have undermined academic freedom and created more bureaucracy

Car carrying Charles Murray attacked at Middlebury College, reports say

Discriminating in hiring practice against particular intellectual perspectives is no less sinister than discriminating against particular political persuasions, says Glenn Geher

Universities cannot wash their hands of responsibility for who is booked to speak on their premises, says Michael Marshall

Interviewing a Mafia researcher made John Elmes consider how scholars should study volatile groups

Charity says Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford is ‘naive’ to hire out its premises for event

Scores of academics pull out of annual convention, blaming president

Ignoring concerns about the lack of post-study work opportunities for Indian students overlooks the huge contribution of Indian-born Britons to UK society, Jack Grove hears

Some object to their university's choice of commencement speaker

Campaigners who want to erase the controversial figures from universities’ pasts are wrong, say Niall McCrae and Roger Watson

University of Hong Kong v-c denies he is ‘heading for a simple life’ as the next head of the University of Edinburgh

The targeting of Turkey’s top academics, in the country’s most established institutions, has caused outrage, writes Gulcin Ozkan

Lack of opportunities and local hiring practices have stopped many French scientists from returning to their homeland, a new study says

Does Nigel Piercy textbook case study stem from his experience at Swansea University? 

Capital’s institutions may be hit by a ‘perfect storm’, warn scholars

Free Speech ranking claims quarter of institutional administrations are ‘actively censoring speech’

New study into medieval universities describes how paupers studied alongside the elite despite financial barriers

More than 198,000 people have signed a petition in support of Ahmadreza Djalali

Editors of journals should face ‘negligence’ investigations over extensive delays, suggests a new paper

Brooklyn author reflects on the new US president, Brexit and literature as he becomes chancellor of the University of Liverpool

US president attacks institution on Twitter after Milo Yiannopoulos event sparks violence

Paper concludes that ‘contrary to popular thinking, Confucius Institutes have not had a positive impact on China’s global interests’