The Latest Breaking News from Academics

Protest crackdown creates 'culture of fear' on campuses

Academics, staff and students have detailed free speech concerns at Australia's top universities after a crackdown on pro-Palestine encampments.

AAP · Jul 18, 2025

Trump’s Homeland Security Agents now just doing ICE’s dirty work, targeting pro-Palestinian academics

You must agree with how MAGA thinks or be targetted.

We Got This Covered · Jul 17, 2025

Life as an Academic Defender of the Intuitively Obvious

Academics are supposed to discover nonobvious, counterintituitive truths. But, especially in recent years, much of my work involves defending positions that seem obvious to most laypeople, even though many experts deny them.

Reason · Jul 14, 2025

Israeli plan to force Palestinians into camps 'blueprint for crimes against humanity'

PLANS by Israel’s defence minister to force all Palestinians in Gaza into a camp have been condemned by legal experts and academics, who described…

The National (Scotland) · Jul 8, 2025

‘The customer is always right’: why some uni teachers give higher grades than students deserve

Grade inflation happens when teachers knowingly give a student a mark higher than deserved. It can also happen indirectly, when the level of difficulty of a course is deliberately lowered so students achieve higher grades.

The Conversation · Jul 6, 2025

Academics critique Farming Simulator's portrayal of 'good farming' and praise modders for agro-ecology add-ons

The researchers believe Farming Simulator can influence attitudes about real farming.

PC Gamer · Jul 5, 2025

‘The American system is being destroyed’: academics on leaving US for ‘scientific asylum’ in France

Almost 300 researchers have applied for positions at Aix-Marseille University after Trump unleashed his attack on academia

The Guardian - UK · Jul 5, 2025

'We're here': Australia joins the race for US academics

Australia is throwing its hat in the ring in the global contest to attract US academics amid President Donald Trump's adversarial approach to higher education.

AAP · Jul 3, 2025

UK universities have failed to protect gender-critical academics, report finds

Report’s author raises ‘stark concerns about barriers to academic freedom’

The Guardian - UK · Jul 2, 2025

Why is Islamophobia so hard to define?

The UK government wants a new definition of Islamophobia and has created a working group of politicians, academics and independent experts to provide one. It aims to settle long-running political debates over the term.

The Conversation · Jul 1, 2025