Latest Breaking News On - Rasha faek - Page 1 : comparemela.com
Arab professors despair of poor working conditions
universityworldnews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from universityworldnews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Survey reveals reasons behind exodus of academic talent
universityworldnews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from universityworldnews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Self-censorship in higher education – An untold problem
According to an online survey by
Al-Fanar Media and Scholars at Risk, about 75% of professors at Arab universities practise academic self-censorship in their professional lives – stopping themselves from saying what they believe to avoid getting in trouble, writes Rasha Faek for
Al-Fanar Media.
Considering the restrictions that officials in some countries place on what professors can say or do, actual levels of academic self-censorship could be much higher. This suggests that freedom of expression, one of the hallmarks of university education, is at risk
“The tendency to self-censor, which these key findings suggest, also matches with the data of the latest edition of the Academic Freedom Index, where the MENA [Middle East and North African] region scores lowest in global comparison,” Benjamin Schmäling, director of the regional office in Amman of the German Academic Exchange Service, wrote in an email.