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November 06, 2025

China-critical UK academics describe ‘extremely heavy’ pressure from Beijing

Reliance on overseas students’ tuition fees under scrutiny as scholars describe chilling effect of being targetedUK academics whose research is...

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November 04, 2025

Counter-terror police investigate claim UK university halted research after Chinese pressure

Sheffield Hallam University ordered professor to cease human rights study into Uyghurs forced labour in ChinaAn investigation into allegations that a...

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November 03, 2025

UK university halted human rights research after pressure from China

Exclusive: Leading professor at Sheffield Hallam was told to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China after demands from...

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November 02, 2025

UK rule change allows some Palestinian scholars to bring families from Gaza

Previous visa policy had forced the students ‘to choose between their education and their family’Some Palestinian students taking up scholarships at...

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September 13, 2025

Universities around the world cut ties with Israeli academia over Gaza war

Educational bodies from Europe to South America are boycotting Israeli institutions, though Universities UK said it did not support the actionA...

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August 10, 2025

Trump administration threatens to strip Harvard University of lucrative patents

White House escalates offensive on Ivy League university by calling for review of federally funded researchThe latest phase of the

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August 07, 2025

‘It’s really, really bad right now’: NIH scientists dismayed by Trump cuts

Researchers say scientific community is in state of whiplash and accuse president of trying to ‘destroy’ vital workLast week, the office of...

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August 03, 2025

Bill Maher defends Trump's university fight: ‘They became indoctrination factories’

Comedian Bill Maher defended President Trump’s fight against higher education, saying college campuses have become “indoctrination factories” in need...

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July 31, 2025

Brown University does deal with Trump administration to restore $50m in funds

Ivy League will commit to nondiscrimination in admissions and campus programs, and grant officials access to dataBrown University has reached an...

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July 30, 2025

Harvard to comply with Trump officials’ demand to turn over employment forms

University to bend to administration demands but says it currently won’t share records of staff in student-only rolesHarvard University said on...

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