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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.
The new Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015 may result in the UK countering terrorism with an extremist security policy.
Freedom of speech is at the heart of academic life and a university should be a place where every issue is discussed and debated. Not so, according to the findings presented in the first ever Freedom of…
The Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill 2014-15, having been rushed through the House of Commons with alarming speed and ease, has passed its second reading in the House of Lords. It is now in the final…
With the shock from the Paris terrorist attacks barely diminished, attention in a number of Western capitals is understandably fixated on counter-terrorism. Politicians are focused on the question of how…
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…
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