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‘Critical Muslims’ square up to the challenges facing higher education and research

Dress to impress if you want students in your corner, claims US study

Health leaders express fears for institution’s independence after Erdoğan appoints his physician and party deputy 

Institutions expected to assess where and how students might be at risk of being drawn into terrorism

Senior lawyer criticises Counter Terrorism and Security Act

New system to ‘put student needs at the centre’

Hundreds of incidents highlighted by international network

Universities have confirmed their opposition to any academic boycott of Israel following votes by student and lecturer groups in favour of sanctions.

Education is the best possible antidote to radicalisation, the academic set to be the next vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford has said

A well-known author and academic has suggested her students should “go back to the womb” if they can’t cope with the kind of disturbing material literature has always dealt with

The Institute of International Education has called on universities to host vulnerable artists. 

Change follows ‘comprehensive risk assessment’ by Queen’s Belfast

Queen’s Belfast move suggests event could still go ahead, but confusion remains about why conference was cancelled

But Queen’s University Belfast says issue is not related to academic freedom and organisers failed to complete necessary risk assessment

Lincoln researchers asking staff across the continents to take part

Dozens put name to statement criticising attempts to stop ‘lawful academic discussion’

By Colleen Flaherty,

By Jake New, for Inside Higher Ed

By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed

Senior associate David Browne likened the handling of Suárez to that of ‘insubordinate’ scholars

Suspended professor prevented from speaking at conference

Fears that Beijing’s ‘red zone of forbidden knowledge’ is spreading in the wake of partnerships

Matthew Reisz talks to Sunaina Maira, editor of The Imperial University: Academic Repression and Scholarly Dissent

Scholars at Risk Network warns of threats to academic freedom after the killing of a lawyer defending a scholar

By Colleen Flaherty, for

Vice-chancellor of Bayero University Kano says his institution grew stronger after a deadly 2012 attack

Researcher on project criticises pursuit of recordings

By Scott Jaschik, for

A report on global attacks on education also proposes ways to protect the sector