Academic freedom

Former university administrator says she struggled to find employment after Turkish university was shut 

Since 2011, dozens of institutions have sworn not to undertake military-related research, but the country is now calling on academics to strengthen its defences

Universities will have to develop and comply with free speech policy by January

Australian universities are nervous about how governments, students and their own academics will react to new legal curbs on ‘foreign influence’, says Dean Forbes

Institution obliged to yield to new government legislation on refugees and asylum seekers

Following proposed ban on teaching of gender studies, continent’s scholarly bodies say government is jeopardising Hungary’s academic standing

Using tropes already common in the US and the UK, the Alternative for Germany has accused institutions of being in thrall to the far left

‘Dominant discourse of the censor’ must not trump free expression on campus, UWA head says

As Elsevier buys another academic workflow company, some worry about potential for publishers to ‘lock in’ scholars to their services

Matthew Reisz meets Andrea Pető, recent recipient of the Madame de Staël prize, a scholar at Hungary’s Central European University whose feminist probing into the dark corners of Hungary’s past is provoking strong reactions in the ‘illiberal democracy’

German students – and academics – still go along with controversial mainstream theories in order to get ahead, researcher argues

University leaders were given less than 18 hours to respond to state plans to scrap the subject

Scholars broadly welcome new government’s pledges but say sector reform will be challenging

He may once have disdained older scholars, but, having reached seniority in a managerialist age, John Brinnamoor now values their ability to say what others can’t

Experts say long-running joint ventures should be seen as a ‘litmus test’

Provided universities offer other avenues to debate contentious issues, institutes’ pro-China stance should not be a deal-breaker, says Jeffrey Gil

Academic lawyer and conservative thinktank leader go head-to-head

Partisan social media posts typically get more attention, but dispassionate analyses are what academics are valued for, says Stuart Brown 

Peking University HSBC Business School declines to renew outspoken researcher’s contract

Government voices ‘concern’ about the ‘culture in our universities’ in response to MPs and peers’ report on campus free speech

UK social science body attacks plans to exert more state control over research topics

Arrests follow sackings of 200 more academics in crackdown after failed coup attempt

Pioneering Moscow education institution is latest target of Russia’s education regulator

John McAdams criticised a graduate student by name on his blog over her views on gay marriage

In a world transformed, we need a radical new blueprint – for a flexible, less centralised network of scholars and students, says a former Berkeley chancellor

Hungarian Academy of Sciences will ‘continue negotiations’ after government bid to take charge of research financing

The age-old dispute over Western civilisation courses has bubbled up again in Australia. It could do more harm than good to cash-strapped humanities courses, writes Steven Schwartz

Scholars say European Union may be reluctant to allocate research funds to Hungarian universities after government takes control over financing of research institutions

Treating staff and students like children discourages the kind of experimentation that will yield solutions to the challenges we face, says Frank Furedi

Biggest campus protests since 1989 have disrupted legislation that many fear will lead to more state control of universities

‘Essentially no difference’ for most part between views of students and general public, says YouGov

Government-led initiative establishes ‘at least 30’ research institutes on president’s thinking

Australian National University outlines why it refused multimillion-dollar humanities gift

Parliamentary moves to outlaw Islamic face veils from classrooms have been strongly criticised by universities

Calls for additional funding to help colleges police controversial events

Populist Doug Ford wants to expand mandate of province’s higher education regulator

Istanbul scholar Büşra Ersanli is one of 241 scholars to face legal action for signing a 2016 peace declaration

Scholars want an end to stifling university legislation, but differ on proposed approach

Public suspect researchers are performing ‘impact’ and hitting targets for the benefit of government regulators, not them, European academies argue

President unveils new target of attracting 350,000 foreign students despite ongoing concern over human rights abuses

As a Brit leading HKU, Peter Mathieson had no baggage. The University of Edinburgh’s new v-c tells Ellie Bothwell about academic freedom, internationalisation and being treated to taxi drivers’ views on students

Moral and cultural organisations such as universities must strive harder to rid the body politic of populist infection, in central Europe and elsewhere, says Tomáš Halík

Sixty-four staff from a university in south-west Turkey have been imprisoned over alleged links to a banned organisation

Gathering intellectual antagonists under the same roof contains the incendiary electricity of controversy and redirects it to generate sparks of new knowledge, says Carel Stolker

Detention is latest twist in Albert Schram’s turbulent tenure at Unitech

Criticism of ‘obsolete’ passages by Gallic political leaders has led to a ban on new students learning French

Former president of the Czech Academy of Sciences warns of online dirty tricks that may have cost him country’s presidency

Minister plans to simplify ‘dizzying variety’ of rules on freedom of expression

Objections to the suppression of ‘sensitive’ articles should not be based on outmoded claims about consumption, says Michel Hockx

It was at a Munich university that a group of students formed a non-violent movement to resist the Nazi regime. Their courageous idealism sets an example that, Kenneth Asch hopes, continues to flower on campuses

Plans to dismantle institutions including Istanbul University are part of efforts to exert more political control over academia, critics say

Imperial College London academic Abbas Edalat has been detained on security charges since mid-April 

Provost of Hungary’s Central European University tells conference that autonomy is in jeopardy across continent

Universities cannot become Gardens of Eden without losing their key purpose, writes Hanna Holborn Gray

Magdeburg university head reveals scale of threats he received after controversy over right-wing AfD speakers

Education committee chair Rob Halfon says ‘sanctions’ should be applied where numbers of disadvantaged students stall or decline

Politicians’ disparagement of historian’s research signals that alternative interpretations of the city state’s past will not be tolerated, says Linda Lim

Efforts to reclaim imperial history from so-called ‘politically correct’ professors have little to do with genuine academic debate, argue James McDougall and Kim Wagner

As Beijing and Canberra trade blows over foreign interference and academic freedom, leading analyst predicts things will get worse before they get better

Universities may close centres or be forced to register employees as foreign agents as a result of investigations, say experts