Statements on public comment would help leaders navigate fraught issues
Codifications of how university missions preclude institutional positions would guide expectations and responses, says Paul Gooch
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Professor sacked by Max Planck Society over Israel comments
Supporters of Ghassan Hage claim his dismissal follows a ‘smear campaign’ responding to his condemnation of ‘war crimes’ in Palestinian territories
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Fears mount over detention of academics who travelled to China
Several Chinese academics working overseas have disappeared or been detained on return to homeland as leaders expand national security laws
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State enforcement of campus free speech ‘a contradiction’
Universities are not ‘speaker’s corner’ and governments should not impose ‘diktats about what we do on campus’, New Zealand forum hears
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Who will gain if the UK’s reputation among overseas students is ruined?
Those of us who stay on post-study give far more to our adopted country than we have been able to give to our home nations, says Elena Rodriguez-Falcon
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Gender-critical scholars claim discrimination over BMJ rejections
Researchers say emails suggest disapproval of social media posts on transgender issues contributed to rejections
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Flirting with students is not harmless
Whether targets of sexualised attention or audience members, students lack power to divert harmful classroom dynamics, says Mary Peterson
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How can we fix UK higher education? – part two
Universities are struggling financially amid frozen domestic fees and growing political hostility to international students. But while the public finances are stretched, July’s general election could...
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Professor’s lectures ‘secretly recorded’ during conduct review
Academic says he has ‘never seen anything like it’ after being told that classroom cameras were being used without his knowledge
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Australia needs an international strategy. The accord offers nothing
The final report’s scant recommendations and mooted interventions are uninspiring, unhelpful and, at times, alarming, says Michael Wesley
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Political interference in universities is unconservative
Intimidation of longstanding civic institutions belies a traditional conservative emphasis on small government and free speech, says Andrew Seligsohn
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Universities’ over-monitoring culture is a threat to academic freedom
The digital revolution is creating a sense of always being watched and judged in both teaching and research, say Chavan Kissoon and Terence Karran
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This isn’t the 1960s. Administrators are now conscripted into the attack
The unprecedented pressure on presidents from donors and pressure groups renders them unable to defend their students, says Harvey Graff