Academic freedom

Not everybody is impressed by a new “model” for conferences addressing controversial themes fashioned after outrage over an event about the Israel-Palestine conflict

Move comes as universities minister criticises National Union of Students for failing to back new rules to curb ‘extremist’ speakers on campus

University negotiates compromise deal over controversial conference

Universities to scale back liberal arts and social science courses

Debate hears differing perspectives on whether students should have warnings or be sheltered from certain points of view

Wyn Ellis appears to have been on immigration blacklist after exposing Thai official’s plagiarism

How do you reconcile university autonomy with the modern desire for accountability? asks Ferdinand von Prondzynski

Alice Dreger resigns her post after institution censored a risqué story in a medical journal

Universities fear new higher education bill will force reclassification

How will the complexion of Israel’s coalition government affect its universities?

Choice between overarching managers and collegiality in universities a false choice, study suggests

Phyllis Wise says she will step down due to ‘external issues’ affecting the institution

UCU members vote two to one against terms that they fear may leave them liable to summary dismissal

University of Witwatersrand describes statements as 'abhorrent' but defends freedom of speech

Industry-led approach to doctoral education may ‘marginalise’ mentoring

‘Critical Muslims’ square up to the challenges facing higher education and research

Dress to impress if you want students in your corner, claims US study

Health leaders express fears for institution’s independence after Erdoğan appoints his physician and party deputy 

Institutions expected to assess where and how students might be at risk of being drawn into terrorism

Senior lawyer criticises Counter Terrorism and Security Act

New system to ‘put student needs at the centre’

Hundreds of incidents highlighted by international network

Universities have confirmed their opposition to any academic boycott of Israel following votes by student and lecturer groups in favour of sanctions.

Education is the best possible antidote to radicalisation, the academic set to be the next vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford has said

A well-known author and academic has suggested her students should “go back to the womb” if they can’t cope with the kind of disturbing material literature has always dealt with

The Institute of International Education has called on universities to host vulnerable artists. 

Change follows ‘comprehensive risk assessment’ by Queen’s Belfast

Queen’s Belfast move suggests event could still go ahead, but confusion remains about why conference was cancelled

But Queen’s University Belfast says issue is not related to academic freedom and organisers failed to complete necessary risk assessment

Lincoln researchers asking staff across the continents to take part

Dozens put name to statement criticising attempts to stop ‘lawful academic discussion’

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Senior associate David Browne likened the handling of Suárez to that of ‘insubordinate’ scholars

Suspended professor prevented from speaking at conference

Fears that Beijing’s ‘red zone of forbidden knowledge’ is spreading in the wake of partnerships

Matthew Reisz talks to Sunaina Maira, editor of The Imperial University: Academic Repression and Scholarly Dissent

Scholars at Risk Network warns of threats to academic freedom after the killing of a lawyer defending a scholar

By Colleen Flaherty, for Inside Higher Ed

Vice-chancellor of Bayero University Kano says his institution grew stronger after a deadly 2012 attack

Researcher on project criticises pursuit of recordings

By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed

A report on global attacks on education also proposes ways to protect the sector