Creative and academic freedom under threat from religious intolerance in India
Indian artists and thinkers may start thinking twice about using religion in their creative output.
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Matthew Hedges: my UAE spy arrest shows universities must do more to protect academics working in the field
As I found, academics engaging in fieldwork research are in a particularly vulnerable position.
Even extremists have a right to freedom of speech on campus
There may well be an outcry from student unions and lecturers’ organisations against proposals in a new counter-terrorism bill from home secretary Theresa May for a new statutory duty on universities and…
Hungary’s assault on academic freedom is a threat to European principles
A move that could shut an independent university in Budapest poses fundamental questions about European values.
The Journal of Controversial Ideas: it’s academic freedom without responsibility, and that’s recklessness
Holding authors responsible functions as part of academic quality control – without it we cannot hold authors accountable for shoddy research or the moral consequences of their publications.
The murder of my friend Giulio Regeni is an attack on academic freedom
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.
Beware the security creep into British universities
The new Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015 may result in the UK countering terrorism with an extremist security policy.
The Secret Agent: gripping thriller reminds us why academic freedom needs protecting
This Brazilian film pits an academic against the forces
Declarations of academic freedom may not stop scholars being led into temptation
This month we read of students and alumni of the University of Oxford protesting the opening of a new Earth Sciences laboratory funded by the oil company Shell. And this is by no means the only instance…
Purge of teachers and academics bulldozes through Turkish education
Turkish higher education has got used to repression, but this is on another scale.
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