Turkish higher education has got used to repression, but this is on another scale.
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With 70 percent adjunct faculty, who work on a semester-to-semester basis, the current system is not helping students. What can replace the traditional tenure system?
A case involving the suppression of academic research into racism - by a university - raises troubling questions.
Roz Ward’s suspension by her university should send a chill through Australian academia.
New rules could have a chilling effect on academic freedom of speech.
Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi has been rocked by protests both opposing and supporting the arrest of Kanhaiya Kumar.
Giulio Regeni, a PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge, was carrying out research on the formation of independent trade unions in post-Mubarak Egypt.
Academics and Kurdish areas have been targeted – but the backlash has begun.
The Moroccan state’s case against a leading academic could have far reaching ramifications for academic freedom and research at the country’s universities.
In defence of the campaign by students and lecturers at Cambridge for the university to take down a promotional video featuring the controversial historian.
Two incidents have stressed the fragility of free speech in Britain in the face of police use of anti-terror legislation to seize materials from journalists and academics. The Independent has reported…
As universities set up campuses globally, the blanket protections of academic freedom are becoming increasingly difficult to guarantee.
The decision by the university membership body to campaign for Britain staying in the EU has implications for academics.
All too often, the debate around the BDS movement is lost in a cacophony of anti-Semitism accusations and the focus shifts to Western institutions instead of Palestinian rights.
UKIP has criticised a group of EU-funded professors for not being impartial commentators in referendum debates.
Universities are places that teach ethics to students. But, on any given day, you can read about several university scandals. Do universities practice what they teach?
Indian artists and thinkers may start thinking twice about using religion in their creative output.
With an increasing percentage of adjunct faculty, tenure and academic freedom are way more complex and nuanced than we realize.
The West has stood by and watched as democracy was stifled in Egypt. It will reap the whirlwind.
Recent cases of tweets by a Boston University professor about racism and others have raised questions about what might be the limits to academic freedom.
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