The Latest Breaking News from Academics

Vice-chancellors urge Office for Students to provide more clarity to protect students and academics from abuse

Many American universities, widely seen globally as beacons of academic integrity and free speech, are giving in to demands from the Trump administration, which has been targeting academia since it took office.

Supporters in Europe can offer new opportunities and minimise the isolation. Certainly they can avoid making things worse, says political scientist Cas Mudde

Academics called on GPs to ‘better target’ antibiotics for those at highest need after analysing data on millions of prescriptions.

Academics Dr Deirdre O’Neill and Michael Wayne are suing the University and College Union

Academics Dr Deirdre O’Neill and Michael Wayne are suing the University and College Union (UCU) over criticism of their film about trans issues.

Securing the future of local journalism is attracting attention from industry, policymakers and academics across the globe, at a time when the landscape is radically shifting. “News deserts” are emerging and, to fill them, community Facebook pages, local government newsletters and digital startups are springing up.

Rosemary Burton writes: We also learn that complaints by academics about journalism garbling their work are nothing new

An excerpt from yesterday's post by my UCLA colleague Stephen Bainbridge: Last week, I signed an open letter to the… The post "On Not Signing Most Open Group Letters by My Fellow Legal Academics" appeared first on Reason.com.

Documents before tribunal say UCU branch asked Edinburgh University to cancel screening of Adult Human Female

US academics, fearing persecution by their own government, are becoming ideological refugees. Europe, and Britain, must offer them sanctuary