All academic freedom articles
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NewsThere’s a lot at stake for research in Brazil’s imminent presidential election
Brazilian universities lack money for labs and maintenance, and fear things will only get Bolsonaro is re-elected
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Eminent NYU chemist fired after students complain about taxing organic chemistry course
Maitland Jones’s sacking highlights tensions between student expectations, academic rigour and teaching styles
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Afghan scientific expertise scattered, one year on from Taliban takeover
Afghanistan’s research infrastructure may be idling, but students and researchers who managed to escape abroad continue their work and plan to return to help rebuild their homeland
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UKRI finds itself in hot water too over Researchfish cyberbullying row
UK’s main funder admits that it agreed that research service provider should share academics’ tweets with it
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Researchfish lands in hot water after threatening academics over critical comments
Service that tracks impact of research for UK universities and funders apologises for sending tweets claiming that it reported researchers
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Chemistry student among hundreds jailed following Belarus’s pro-democracy crackdown
Artsiom Bayarski’s plight mirrors that of hundreds of students and academics in the country
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Science and research ‘are dead’ in Afghanistan
Afghan researchers and scholars flee or go into hiding as the Taliban’s return to power sees the science academy and universities closed
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Hungarian academy fears for its scientific freedom over draft law
Scientific institution condemns government’s ‘extraordinarily harmful’ plan to gain more control over research programmes
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Fears for academic freedom as Brazil's political climate deteriorates
University researchers in Brazil report facing increasing threats since Bolsonaro ran for and then became president in January
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Hungarian government withholds funding from Academy of Sciences prompting protests
International organisations have raised concerns over research independence in the country
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Brazil's election of far-right Bolsonaro leaves researchers reeling
Many academics fear that science funding and academic freedom will be smashed by new government
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Concern over vetting of US science grants by political appointee
National Academies speak out after news of Interior Department’s policy on grants worth more than $50,000 emerges
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US–Cuba diplomatic deterioration damaging scientific collaboration
Restrictions on travel and diplomatic tensions are harming free exchange of ideas
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EPA bans grantees from providing science advice
US science community and Congress unite to attack policy that prohibits many academic researchers serving on advisory committees
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Suppression of academic freedom a ‘global crisis’
Universities around the world under attack as states and groups seek to silence free thought
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Central European University set to be saved as deadline passes
Hungarian university hopes international agreement will allow it to continue teaching
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Opinion
Independent banking
Research shouldn’t be held ransom by the Spanish government in the fight over Catalonia
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‘Purge’ of academics follows failed Turkey coup as thousands fired
Supporters of the 4800 academics who have been dismissed say the move is to remove those critical of the president
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Trump bullies major research university after protests
Researchers fear chilling effect on academic freedom after president threatens to pull funding from Berkeley
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Research labs exempted from new Texas campus gun law
‘High hazard’ research areas are excluded from law that allows licensed owners to carry guns at university
