University staff and students call for better funding for French education at a protest in Lyons. Credit: Antoine Boureau/Hans Lucas/AFP/Getty

Academic freedom is deteriorating globally, according to the Scholars at Risk (SAR) network, a human-rights organization based at New York University.

The network’s latest annual report documents 382 attacks on academic freedom by state authorities, affecting scholars, students and academic institutions in 59 countries and territories, between July 2025 and June 2026. That’s fewer incidents, but across more regions, than the previous year (which had seen 395 attacks in 49 countries and territories).…