Academic freedom

Johannes Angermuller is a linguist in the UK, a sociologist in Germany and a mixture of both in France. How do you define your academic self?

Former anti-Mafia prosecutor Raffaele Cantone will investigate cronyism and nepotism in Italy’s higher education system next year

Academic at the University of Toronto uses YouTube videos to hit out at anti-discrimination policies from institution and government 

Institution under pressure as tensions mount over Beijing's influence over city 

Former US deputy assistant secretary of defence now to lead American University of Afghanistan

Academic attainment of disadvantaged students can be improved if they can decide how they are assessed, study claims

Bruce Macfarlane on the hypocrisy of academics who help to monitor students in ways they themselves never were

Chancellor Lizhong Yu tells Jack Grove about how NYU Shanghai hopes its model will turbocharge international mobility

Sir Leszek Borysiewicz to tell THE summit that universities rely on public trust and institutional autonomy

The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media

From decolonising curricula to ensuring right-wing viewpoints, calls for more representation and balance on campuses do not all share the same goals, says Tom Cutterham

Letter from dozens of faculty members follows dean of students' warning that institution did not support suppression of controversial views

Post-coup crackdown has led to a huge number of requests for help, say charities for at-risk scholars

Humorous tribute to academia’s unsung heroes will be based outside a Moscow university

Elite Paris institution says its planned meeting with exiled Tibetan spiritual leader was rendered 'pointless' by similar event

Germany’s proposed ban follows concerns by Angela Merkel’s supporters that the niqab and burka are contrary to integration

Women's submissions to a leading seminar were viewed more warmly once a gender-blind process was introduced

Institutions should also appoint ‘hate incident champions’ to encourage students to report abuse, says study

Unconscious bias training for those on promotion and recruitment panels may help tackle deficit of senior BME staff, says Leadership Foundation study

Walking supervision sessions around Birmingham and pub-based academic chats have won praise from PhD candidates

Trends in international mobility may explain why fewer women are reaching the top ranks of academia, a Spanish study suggests

Ultra-modern university in gambling hotspot looks to ancient college system for inspiration

Political pressure on scholars is mounting, writes Cem Oyvat

European researchers call for a ‘radical reorganisation’ to help undergraduates and PhD students access grants

Senior figure sees ‘strong signals’ that Turkey’s academy has been infiltrated, despite international criticism

Greek researchers from US institutions hit out at controversial plan drawn up by University of Texas economist

Academics in Turkey are scared, and they have every reason to be, says Serdar Değirmencioğlu

De Montfort University is asking staff to record their lectures to help students with disabilities

Former education secretary under Thatcher considers how his new work on book burning relates to current debate on censorship

The Turkish government's actions in relation to higher education are understandable, argue Sedat Gumus and Bekir Gur

Statement signed by 30 scholarly organisations condemns continued attack on academic freedom

V-c says presence on campus of Danish journalist who commissioned Muhammad cartoons could 'retard rather than advance academic freedom'. Elizabeth Redden reports

Unprecedented ’cleansing’ of academia may force many leading minds to leave the country, scholar warns

Hundreds of deans have been ordered to resign while academics have been told not to travel abroad for work in the wake of the failed coup

Having an unusual, foreign or difficult-to-say name can present challenges in UK academia, says Marta Natalia Wróblewska

Frank Furedi says the mournful mood on campus and the disparagement and silencing of Leave supporters betray an isolated scholarly class

Jeremy Corbyn urged to investigate claims of abuse much more actively and openly

Iranian-Canadian Homa Hoodfar, who has conducted research on Islamic family law and Muslim dress codes, was imprisoned last month

Personality researcher Adam Perkins faces claims at rescheduled lecture of ‘misrepresenting’ studies to suit his thesis on ‘work-shy’ benefit claimants

Author makes the case for universities to be open to eccentrics and those whose views we abhor

Sites like Patreon and Kickstarter allow backers to fund independent scholars, but for now, the sums are small

But University of Glasgow says critic of shale gas extraction had email and journal access terminated as part of ‘routine review’

Universities have a ‘moral responsibility’ to combat growing trend of rubbishing economists, scientists and academics, says De Montfort University vice-chancellor

Martin McQuillan and Shahidha Bari consider the Brexit debate and the higher education sector’s role in it

Jean-Lou Chameau says new institution has established 'remarkable' research record since opening and has not been influenced by Saudi Arabian cultural issues 

President of George Washington University also questions the benefit of free university tuition

A High Court action will determine whether former students on a much-criticised hypnosis degree course receive compensation

Instead, researchers should aim for methodological ‘soundness’ rather than ‘flashy claims of superiority’

Serdar Değirmencioğlu was dismissed from his university in April, and believes many more are on the verge of being banned from public service

Beijing said to be making ‘concerted campaign’ to extend soft power, neutralise opposition to South China Sea territorial claims

Marking boycott ends after UCU says managers agree to scrap ‘unfair’ targets

Krzysztof Rybiński on changing Narxoz University’s culture and the lure of ‘the best meat in the world’

University heads wary of criticising anti-extremism legislation, says Kingston leader

Jean Monnet chairs say they encourage full debate on the union, although one has written that when the EU is criticised, ‘our instinct is to defend it’

Purchase of research repository has horrified open access advocates who fear acquisition marks attempt to maintain control over publishing

University revises policy after backlash from academics

Giulio Regeni’s murder poses difficult questions for the sector on what doctoral students’ research should entail

But could arguments over washing-up, empty honesty boxes and milk be a thing of the past at De Montfort?

Discrimination and university expulsions continue to blight the lives of this religious minority, writes Shabnam Moinipour

Those judging creative scientific ideas fail to fully understand them, potentially hampering breakthroughs, research indicates