academic freedom
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Worldwide state of academic freedom according to the Academic Freedom Index
Academic freedom is the right of a teacher to instruct and the right of a student to learn in an academic setting unhampered by interference. It may also include the right of academics to engage in social and political criticism.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “academic freedom” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.