Academic freedom

Sole remaining pro-Israel speaker claims ‘semi-hysterical’ reaction has harmed academic debate

Texas hostelries are one of the few places where students cannot bring guns

Call to consider faith diversity alongside issues of gender and ethnicity

Alternative for Germany also wants to end funding for gender studies, saying discipline is not a serious subject

Canadian scholar urges universities to back off from policing what people do in private

Brussels-based scholar Ahmadreza Djalali has lost 27kg while in detention in Iran

Some scholars at Canadian university say comments ‘infringe on academic freedom’

Poll finds staff believe reforms have undermined academic freedom and created more bureaucracy

Car carrying Charles Murray attacked at Middlebury College, reports say

Discriminating in hiring practice against particular intellectual perspectives is no less sinister than discriminating against particular political persuasions, says Glenn Geher

Universities cannot wash their hands of responsibility for who is booked to speak on their premises, says Michael Marshall

Interviewing a Mafia researcher made John Elmes consider how scholars should study volatile groups

Charity says Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford is ‘naive’ to hire out its premises for event

Scores of academics pull out of annual convention, blaming president

Ignoring concerns about the lack of post-study work opportunities for Indian students overlooks the huge contribution of Indian-born Britons to UK society, Jack Grove hears

Some object to their university's choice of commencement speaker

Campaigners who want to erase the controversial figures from universities’ pasts are wrong, say Niall McCrae and Roger Watson

University of Hong Kong v-c denies he is ‘heading for a simple life’ as the next head of the University of Edinburgh

The targeting of Turkey’s top academics, in the country’s most established institutions, has caused outrage, writes Gulcin Ozkan

Does Nigel Piercy textbook case study stem from his experience at Swansea University? 

Lack of opportunities and local hiring practices have stopped many French scientists from returning to their homeland, a new study says

Capital’s institutions may be hit by a ‘perfect storm’, warn scholars

Free Speech ranking claims quarter of institutional administrations are ‘actively censoring speech’

New study into medieval universities describes how paupers studied alongside the elite despite financial barriers

More than 198,000 people have signed a petition in support of Ahmadreza Djalali

Editors of journals should face ‘negligence’ investigations over extensive delays, suggests a new paper

Brooklyn author reflects on the new US president, Brexit and literature as he becomes chancellor of the University of Liverpool

US president attacks institution on Twitter after Milo Yiannopoulos event sparks violence

Paper concludes that ‘contrary to popular thinking, Confucius Institutes have not had a positive impact on China’s global interests’

The University of Toronto’s scholarship raises questions about the extent to which academic freedom is appropriate

University founded by Christian evangelicals sends delegation to US hoping for assistance 

But some academics suggest move would harm US universities and scholars ‘who desperately need support’ 

The UK must raise the issue of Turkey's appalling treatment of academia, says Mehmet Ugur

Nadya Ali outlines the problems that impose three demands on the sector

First transnational study of how university dropouts fare in the labour market suggests any exposure to higher education is better than none

Chair voices concerns over student satisfaction data as Cambridge’s students’ union joins NSS boycott

Turkish philosopher describes shock at being stopped from packing up office after sudden dismissal

Student leader calls for clearer rules on student-staff relationships after Sussex report into abusive lecturer case

Legislation in Missouri and Iowa seeks to curtail right to protected academic posts

Scholars are ‘doing as much as they can’ to promote critical thinking among students despite suppression of liberal thought, study claims

China’s pressure on its academics to toe an ideological line will increase if Trump focuses only on business, says Tao Zhang

Typography expert’s rules for making messages easier to read elicit both praise and claims of pedantry

Measuring learning gain via self-reporting is difficult as top graduates underrate abilities, suggests Futuretrack study

Medical scholar branded a ‘terrorist’ by Turkey over his alleged links to a US-based cleric is named head of an institution in Texas

International project to change curriculum helps UCL students avoid ‘sophomore slump’

University College Cork to host controversial event British institutions seemed ‘afraid’ to touch

Reading popular science articles causes non-scientists to overrate their expertise, research finds

Homa Hoodfar urges scholars to see academic freedom as a ‘history of struggle everywhere’

Although the term still resonates with scholars, it means less and less in today’s academy, says Bruce Macfarlane

Jack Grove asks whether Father Christmas could learn from recent ‘Santa studies’ research

Election of theology professor Michel Deneken as Strasbourg president angers secularists

Niall McCrae and Jules Gomes investigate the disappearance of an ex-archbishop

Sir Keith Burnett reflects on the future of academia and innovation in the UK and China

The most popular Times Higher Education stories of the last year revealed

For the first time, says the UK’s universities minister Jo Johnson, academic freedom and institutional autonomy will be enshrined in UK law

Women in academia may be losing out salary-wise because they are more focused on tasks that may go unrewarded, a study suggests

President of Johns Hopkins University says ‘deeply poisonous politics’ is also harming the system