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Steven Greer says students who accused him of laughing at the Koran should be sanctioned

Maria Toft sparked national conversation about exploitation with #pleasedontstealmywork campaign, but she says it came at the cost of her Copenhagen fellowship

Board backed by Conservative government removes Athabasca University leadership, leaving province’s academics fearing wider interference and nation exposed on online options

Sciences ‘under fire’ with appointment of hard-line cleric to oversee appointment of deans

Minister calls statutory tort an essential step to ‘cultural transformation’

NaUKMA head defends dropping ‘language of aggressor’, despite concerns over freedom of expression

It is excessive to demand the resignation of a US college leader who badly misjudged a student complaint about offence, says Jonathan Zimmerman

Toby Young sees ‘campaign’ for Nick Hillman to land job being waged by Lord Willetts, whose rebellion on tort may be fought in Commons

Governor encounters some faculty and student pushback to his campaign of restrictions on curriculum and personal rights, but presidents and many academics cower in fear

As institutions attempt to make language more inclusive, scholars question whether changing language with negative connotations has the opposite effect

JNU students watch BBC film despite warnings of disciplinary action and social media ban

Institutions should pay heed to pressure from Beijing, but avoid depriving students of study abroad opportunities, scholars say

Open letter calling for political neutrality of public universities has gathered over 1,000 signatures

Kennedy School dean Elmendorf, under sustained protest, apologises and invites celebrated Human Rights Watch leader

Prodded by DeSantis, heads of all 28 campuses promise to hinder attempts to explain racial inequities to students

Politicians fight Chinese social media platform over security concerns seen as flawed and even risky, but with possible upside for student mental health

Florida’s Trumpian governor has repeatedly attacked the freedom and expertise of the state’s university sector. With the Yale and Harvard graduate widely tipped as the 2024 Republican presidential nominee, should universities nationwide be preparing for more of the same, asks Paul Basken

Gay rights champion Robert Wintemute says McGill University’s response to the forced cancellation of his seminar is disappointing

Flexibility of guidelines for universities wanting to open outposts praised, but concerns raised over academic freedom

Restrictions are partly due to a stilted academic culture in which criticism is uncomfortable, says Roohola Ramezani

Ban could prompt brain drain, warn experts, while university foundations are likely to be restocked with loyalists

Expert panel requested by Congress suggests conditions under which universities could be exempted from its general ban on partnerships with Chinese government-backed educational programme

Outcry over cancellation of planned post for former Human Rights Watch director

With much still unclear, complaints procedures are likely to be lengthy and fraught with contention, says Gill Evans

Involvement of university staff in prosecution of Olesya Krivtsova a major cause for concern, observers say

Named as founding law dean at High Point University, Mark Martin denies refusing congressional investigators but also keeps quiet about advice to defeated president on day of Capitol building assault

Screenings in Nottingham and Edinburgh cancelled but academics claim accusations of transphobia are ‘absurd’

Move to shrink governing body and reduce internal representation seen as rebuke for president Rocky Tuan

Decision ‘is in clear violation of Afghanistan’s obligations under international law’, says UN high commissioner for human rights

Professor known for statements widely perceived as racist has had low class sign-ups for several years, suggesting campus verdict ahead of formal sanction review

Embattled human rights professor faced abuse and threats online after DUP leader questioned latest report

Government tipped to win battle with peers who removed statutory tort and are ‘unwilling to compromise’

Bizarre phenomena on Chinese university campuses go beyond manifestations of student boredom, according to academics

University reaffirms ‘commitment to freedom of expression and academic freedom’ following student protests and UCU’s call to cancel event

Westminster government signals it will seek to reinstate ‘statutory tort’ removed by peers

Regulator tells universities free speech codes should cover teaching and academics will be polled, bringing ‘independence’ rebuke

Xiaolei Wu alleged to have told victim that he had reported them to security agencies in homeland

Proposed safe home for conservative voices doing well on funding but with signs of delays and political softening

Civility works well as a campus norm, and lawful rights must be protected, but ‘respect’ mandates are misguided, says Geoff Sharrock

Move by Afghan government ‘opens door’ for more of its supporters to become lecturers, scholars fear

Peers amend controversial legislation owing to prospect of “endless litigation”, with ban on non-disclosure agreements also supported

Five years on from Cambridge University Press’ controversial compliance with a Chinese government request to make more than 300 articles unavailable to Chinese readers, publishers are increasingly self-censoring content on ‘sensitive’ topics. But is the trade-off justified, asks George Cooper

Concerns over prospect of ‘endless litigation’ lead to government tabling changes to controversial legislation

Saying that you stand with Ukraine while glossing over the situation in Hong Kong is untenable, says Phil Chan

Critics claim victory as assessment of research benefits is handed back to the experts

Plea comes as European Parliament pledges new focus on academic freedom

Conservative ex-universities ministers aim to force government into rowing back on plans to allow universities to be sued over free speech

Academics suggest the answers to the hard lessons that Fifa is learning now should have been obvious from the experience of higher education institutions in the Gulf state

The UK’s ����Vlog Bill could become a new global reference on academic freedom – if only it can get the definition right, say Liviu Matei and Shitij Kapur

Central reporting depersonalises attacks and helps police spot patterns, according to prominent vaccine scholar who has faced threats

LSE historian accuses journal of ‘compromising intellectual quality in favour of identity politics’

Too many European policymakers see universities as ‘knowledge factories’ that exist to serve state interests, according to College of Europe professor

Economist released weeks after being sentenced to three years’ imprisonment over ‘trumped up’ charges

Scholars express ‘deep concern’ over recent decrees banning women from public places and reinstating sharia

In Hong Kong, as elsewhere, managers should support faculty and students to engage in inquiry whatever their personal values, says Carsten Holz

Universities should not be obliged to support speech that restricts another’s right to speech or academic freedom, say James Murray and Alice Sullivan

Concerns over more rigid control of universities and fear of isolationist thinking causing ‘intellectual impoverishment’ for East and West

Scholar warns that growing influence of ideology over education could be ‘the most dangerous thing’ happening in modern-day Russia

Fine words in support of academic freedom are welcome, but deeds are also required, says Agnieszka Piotrowska

Şebnem Korur Fincancı was charged with spreading terrorist propaganda after calling for inquest into army’s alleged use of chemical weapons in Syria