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Chris Heaton-Harris¡¯ request for academics lecturing in field was research for book, says Jo Johnson

Universities will continue to provide a place where academic freedom can flourish, says Janet Beer

Swedish-based academic Ahmadreza Djalali will be executed following 'grossly unfair trial', says Amnesty International

Jo Johnson urged to condemn Tory who asked vice-chancellors for course content and names of European studies professors

Foreign minister warns on free speech, while ANU v-c urges against seeing Chinese students as ¡®spies¡¯

Far-left students in US are more likely to favour protests and support the withdrawal of a guest speaker¡¯s invitation, survey finds

Hungarian government extends deadline for compliance with education act after Budapest-based institution meets criteria

University leaders at University of Chicago discussion call for students to be better educated about First Amendment

With latest application for teaching licence rejected in long-running battle with authorities, time is running out to start the new academic year

Education minister sees break from Spain as a path to more ¡®competition and excellence¡¯ in hiring, firing and leadership

Budapest-based institution says negotiations between Hungary and New York State have created ¡®basis for an agreement¡¯

Quiet acceptance of accent discrimination damages efforts to make classrooms more inclusive, says Katerina Loukopoulou

Police complaint is filed against Delhi University lecturer after he posted comment on Facebook

Move follows government accusation that ideological and political work at some top institutions was weak

Intense polarisation of Turkish diaspora, plus online harassment, means refugee scholars feel they are being watched

Scholars at Risk counts 257 assaults and persecutions on higher education communities over past year

Publishers should consult with journal editors over censorship requests, says China Quarterly committee member

Social scientists are innovating to ensure their research is relevant, but more must be done, says Rick Delbridge

Initiative urges government researchers to send findings through encrypted channels to ensure their preservation

Op-ed on statues of eugenicists and researchers who denied rights to non-white people branded ¡®disastrous¡¯

Glasgow vice-chancellor Sir Anton Muscatelli defends ¡®cost-efficient¡¯ sector driving UK growth

No tax inspector or police officer can claim rights over what they write for their jobs, so why should academics, asks Gabriel Egan

Louise Richardson says it is ¡®completely mendacious¡¯ to suggest higher tuition fees have driven inflation in executive pay

Thousands of university staff are set to pay more towards pensions under proposals

Seven top universities establish political monitoring units in response to state ¡®rectification reports¡¯

It is time to consider how we can stop senior academics bullying their way on to research papers, says Trisha Greenhalgh

Brain-boosting drugs can help students and academics alike to unlock their potential, says Hemmel Amrania

With the Hungarian government clamping down on universities and championing labourers over philosophers, David Matthews meets those living with the consequences

Creeping political interference in universities, from the UK to Hungary and the US, is part of a worrying shift in attitudes towards higher education

Campus Antifascist Network plans self-defence training for scholars who may be challenged by white supremacists

'Intense' reaction from scholars worldwide drives publisher to back down on article block

Hundreds sign petition to boycott journals published by Cambridge University Press amid censorship row

Carol Christ, new leader of the Californian university, also plans ¡®free speech year¡¯ for students and staff to engage with topic

Threats over content available in China reveal difficult line academic community must tread

Publisher pulls articles from academic website in China at request of communist government agency

Kurdistan shows that post-conflict countries can build a thriving higher education sector by working with foreign partners, says Dlawer Ala¡¯Aldeen

Team sent to investigate rule changes that could close Budapest¡¯s Central European University finds that they were made ¡®without very strong reasons¡¯

Huang Jing was accused of ¡®covertly advancing the agenda of a foreign country at Singapore¡¯s expense¡¯

Universities, funders, rankers and individual academics all need to act to stamp out predatory publishers, says Roger Watson

Vitriol directed at Cambridge professor of Classics on Twitter is part of wider battle to politicise diversity, says Conrad Brunstrom

Many students aren¡¯t reporting sexual harassment or assault on campus despite efforts to tackle the problem, say Hareem Ghani and Graham Towl

Prevent monitoring and defeat of legal challenge shows that anti-extremism policy is not limiting academic freedom, says Hifsa Harron-Iqbal

The UK's ¡®red line¡¯ on free movement of labour may prevent its students from participating in the Erasmus exchange programme, says European Union law expert

Research finds undergraduates ¡®self-sort¡¯ by gender and ethnicity for group work

London Economics shows how less well-off graduates will repay more than higher-earning peers

University attacked by 750 academics for forcing entire professoriate to reapply for jobs

Higher proportion of black students in London may contribute to capital¡¯s higher dropout rates, says SMF

Survey finds majority of Americans on political Right currently believe universities have negative effect on country

The pressure of producing high-quality research publications spoils the long vacation for many academics, says Rachel Moss

Court rules that professors suing the state did not provide evidence that presence of guns would impact on free speech

Calls among graduates to limit student numbers are not selfish, but may instead reflect concern about the value of university education, say Duncan Watson and Robert Webb

Hakan ?¨¹k¨¹r has honorary doctorate removed over his alleged support for a banned political movement

Academics who think they can do the work of professional staff better than professional staff themselves are not showing the kind of respect they expect from others

US proposals spark worry for researchers reading Arabic or foreign language texts, or works critical of the Trump administration

After incidents on US campuses where students have called for scholars¡¯ dismissal, professor sees need to update concept of academic freedom

HEC Paris¡¯ Alberto Alemanno says academics who influence policy ¡®often¡¯ do it in return for money

Campus safe spaces are bad for democracy and open debate, but academics must respond to the genuine concerns they represent, says James Wicks

Hermann Hauser calls on vice-chancellors to ¡®take a stand against pseudoscience¡¯