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Focusing on colleges, universities, and research institutions, this page assesses how academic freedom is protected or restricted in India’s higher education landscape. It investigates issues such as faculty autonomy, campus censorship, regulatory control, political influence, and student rights. The content highlights case studies, policy developments, and ongoing debates that shape the freedom to teach, learn, and research.
Teachers’ Cease-Work to Protest ‘Interference by Outsiders’ in Ravenshaw University Matters
PTI | 28 August 2026 | The Print
The Question of Academic Freedom and the Unequal Capacity to Exercise It
Vedika Rahi | 27 August 2026 | India Today NE
‘Cancel Admissions’: Jamia Millia Students Allege Lower Rank-Holders Given Seats over Toppers, Protest
Azib Ahmed | 25 August 2026 | Careers360
‘Nationalism’ Push at JU: CM Suvendu Adhikari to Visit Campus amid Saffron-Left Showdown
Debraj Mitra, Subhankar Chowdhury | 25 August 2026 | The Telegraph
Stayed Earlier, UGC Equity Regulations 2026 Are Now Under ‘Reconsideration'
24 August 2026 | The Wire
Delhi University Students Can Now Directly Opt for PhD After Four-Year Undergraduate Programme
23 August 2026 | The Wire
Repeated Attacks on JU Expose ABVP’s ‘Poverty of Imagination and Ideology’: Teachers
Subhankar Chowdhury | 22 August 2026 | The Telegraph
‘Cockroach’ Hunt Ends in Jadavpur University ‘Surgical Strike’ to ‘Neutralise Dimaagi Naxals'
Subhankar Chowdhury, Monalisa Chaudhuri | 21 August 2026 | The Telegraph
NTA to Re-Conduct UGC-NET for English, Sociology, Commerce Papers as Audit Finds Factual, Translation Errors
20 August 2026 | The Indian Express
JNUTA Opposes JNU Recruitment Drive, Demands Freeze on Teaching, Non-Teaching Posts
Ruchika Kumari | 18 August 2026 | News by Career360
'Irony At Its Peak': Delhi University Post Graduate History Syllabus Drops Delhi Sultanate
18 August 2026 | The Wire
More Blunders: Editorial on the Nta’s Repeated Lapses and the Erosion of Students’ Trust
The Editorial Board | 18 August 2026 | The Telegraph
CU Teacher Group Opposes Great Calcutta Massacre Lecture, Fears ‘Communal Hatred'
Subhankar Chowdhury | 18 August 2026 | The Telegraph
Exam-Nation: Regulating Opportunity in an Unequal Society
Satish Deshpande | 18 August 2018 | The India Forum
The Delhi Sultanate: Why It Matters for Understanding Our past and the Consequences of Its Erasure
16 August 2026 | Syed Nadeem Rezavi | The Blog of Aligarh Society of History and Archaeology [ASHA]
NLSIU Students Condemn Bar Council’s Now-Revoked Action Against NALSAR Graduating Batch
15 August 2026 | The Scroll
Have to Isolate Dimaagi Naxals’: PM Modi in Independence Day Speech from Red Fort
15 August 2026 | Times of India
Bar Council Drops Proceedings Against NALSAR Graduates over CJI Boycott Call
Amaal Sheikh | 14 August 2026 | The Indian Express
What the Bar Council’s Bid to Curb NALSAR Students Says About University Autonomy
Shubham Kumar | 14 August 2026 | The Scroll
JNU VC Calls Varsity ‘Beggar’, Draupadi the ‘First Feminist’ at Indian Knowledge Tradition Conference
Ankit Raj | 13 August 2026 | The Wire
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