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Maintaining a breadth of curricular offerings is crucial if subjects outside the sciences are to retain their attraction in the digital age, says Dean Forbes

Concocted claims reflect an American ¡®preoccupation¡¯, says former Melbourne vice-chancellor

Joan Wallach Scott warns of a ¡®vision of the world in which men are superior to women¡¯ in final protest against CEU expulsion from Hungary

Budapest-based institution confirms all new students will be enrolled in Vienna from next year

Judgement is hard, but limits are appropriate if they ensure the quality of academic engagement with complex, competing ideas, says Sandro Galea

Australia¡¯s twice-unlucky research grant applicants raise questions about the assessment process, but they could help elevate science as an election issue, says John Ross

Doctoral student at was sentenced to life in prison on spying charges

Universities minister Sam Gyimah says student exchanges should continue, despite UAE¡¯s jailing of Matthew Hedges

A Twitter storm over a remark he made on diversity policy reminds Jeffrey Flier why he was so wary of speaking out while a Harvard dean

Matthew Hedges, a PhD student specialising in Middle Eastern politics, was detained at Dubai airport on 5 May and held in solitary confinement

Scholars allowed back to work might not be able not return to previous institutions or large cities, Science Academy warns

Cairo institution hit hard by loss of foreign students, says president

Academics claim Chinese government ¡®has taken significantly more control¡¯ over universities

While universities warn of ¡®heavy-handed external regulation¡¯, choice of reviewer is unlikely to raise objections

Political efforts to silence academic critics are unlikely to end despite clarification that universities are not obliged to ban them, says Pushkar

Toronto historian warns academics against shying away from the complexities of the past

Authoritarian populist governments prevent bloc from taking action to protect academic freedom, say scholars

Liberal institution has been left in legal limbo for 18 months by Viktor Orb¨¢n¡¯s government

Political intervention at odds with government¡¯s free speech campaign

Government says rules on conduct of civil servants should apply to scholars at central universities

Intimate teacher-student relationships must be off-limits even if consent is not an issue, says Agnieszka Piotrowska ¨C who has personal experience of student vulnerability in such asymmetrical relationships

The withdrawal of funding for Ontario¡¯s basic income pilot highlights the perils of working on politically funded research, says Evelyn Forget

Students say they have been dismissed from courses and turned over to police following a wave of mass demonstrations

Critics claim measures restrict ability of foreign staff to reach Birzeit and hinder Palestinians¡¯ access to education

Hebrew University stands by a US student barred from entering the country for having advocated sanctions against Israel

Daniela Tejada says government support for Matthew Hedges, who has been held in solitary confinement for five months, has been ¡®ineffective¡¯

New rules requiring a female presence on doctoral defence panels at the University of Glasgow will push more ¡®unrewarded¡¯ academic tasks on to women, critics claim

Lawyer of former university president imprisoned in Turkey gives glimpse into courtroom practices faced by persecuted academics

Scholars should not be walled off from mainstream biography¡¯s playground of unlicensed fun, says Richard Bradford

Many retired academics embrace the freedom to fully embody their view of the serious scholar, says Bruce Macfarlane

Academics in Niger have suspended their action over pay and management

Education minister says he will repeal laws that bar students from political activism

Ellen Hurwitz charts her journey from US liberal arts colleges to the American University in Central Asia

UK-educated political scientist Sedat La?iner was sentenced after spending 26 months in pretrial custody

Gareth Evans adds that ¡®inherent lack of trust¡¯ prompted Australian National University to decline Western civilisation course

If academics object to students¡¯ intended destinations, they have a right not to write, says David Palumbo-Liu

Right-wing intellectuals who fetishise ¡®facts¡¯ frustrate rather than further intellectual debate, says Ryan Coogan

Sydney sets ground rules for controversial Western civilisation programme before talking ¡®tin tacks¡¯

Fears that MEPs¡¯ move will make little significant difference to plight of Budapest-based university

European University at St Petersburg granted teaching licence after international support

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 Pet?, recent recipient of the Madame de Sta?l 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 ¨C and academics ¨C 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