Universities have a difficult balance to strike between protecting student speech rights and ensuring campus safety.
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Israel’s tourism industry has taken a hit since the start of the war, and it may never fully recover.
A selection of our coverage of the conflict in Gaza from the past fortnight.
An expert on the Columbia University protests of 1968 draws parallels between protests then and the ones taking place there in 2024.
Students protesting at US campuses don’t reflect the majority view in the country.
Australian universities have long been a site of protest. Today’s students join this legacy of activists who helped shape higher education and the Australian cultural landscape.
Washington isn’t a state that typically comes to mind in discussions about student-led protests from the Civil Rights Movement. A Black history professor seeks to change that with a new book.
Where both capacity and integrity are weak, dysfunction is inevitable.
Student violence is a response to the devaluing and oppressive environment in boarding schools.
South Africa’s economic challenges and the high number of students from poor and working class families call for a funding model that doesn’t create an affordability crisis for students and the state.
South Africans deserve a fuller picture of the extent of police brutality, and the level of accountability, especially when people die at the hands of police.
Instead of being a democratic right and legitimate form of expression, protests have increasingly been framed as threats to national security.
The Hunger Games salute, teabags and Pepe the Frog are being adopted by young pro-democracy activists across south-east Asia.
A new documentary follows a group of young Australian climate activists, loosely weaving their fresh protests with historical events. It’s powerful, if a little too polite.
An African literature lecturer shares how embodied teaching can help students feel that their lives and stories matter.
The Australian National University is turning to digital proctoring to replace the role of a walking invigilator. But who watches the proctor, what are the risks, and what data will be collected?
How the protest movement in Hong Kong moved onto university campuses – by two researchers who have witnessed the unfolding events.
Academic freedom protects free speech, but also conditions it. Knowledge cannot be tested and doesn’t advance if there isn’t also a duty to be well informed and reasoned.
Academics should become intellectual defenders of public interest and role models for civic engagement, scholars say.
Young people have reason to protest today and call for action on climate change. But they risk anxiety if they feel they are not heard and nothing is done.
Principales colaboradores
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Professor, University of Cape Town
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Professor of Black Studies and History, Amherst College
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Professor of Digital Society, University of Glasgow
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Departmental Lecturer in African History and Politics, University of Oxford
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Professor of Architecture and SARChI: DST/NRF/SACN Research Chair in Spatial Transformation (Positive Change in the Built Environment), Tshwane University of Technology
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Researcher, Social Sciences, University of Fort Hare
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PhD Scholar, Wits School of Education, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor and Head of Department of Political and Conflict Studies, Nelson Mandela University
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Chief Research Specialist in Democracy and Citizenship at the Human Science Research Council and a Research Fellow Centre for African Studies, University of the Free State
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Head of Department, University of Johannesburg
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Chief Director: Tshwane University of Technology – Institute for Economic Research on Innovation; Node Head: DST/NRF SciSTIP CoE; and Professor Extraordinary: Stellenbosch University – Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology., Tshwane University of Technology
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Academic Staff Development Lecturer, Centre for Higher Education Development, University of Cape Town
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Senior Researcher in Labour Studies and Education, University of Johannesburg
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Director of the Centre for Education Rights and Transformation and Associate Professor of Education, University of Johannesburg
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Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Cape Town
