Queen's Speech shows the government cares little about real threats to academic freedom, UCU says
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Donelan: academic freedom bill critics ‘on wrong side of history’
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International report highlights impact of casualisation on academic freedom
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Manchester University staff sign letter in support of Whitworth gallery director
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UK scholars ‘more likely to self-censor’ when teaching Chinese students
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Lecturers admit self-censoring classes with Chinese students
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Universities 'should take note' of Sussex free speech row investigation
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Scotland: Academics should not be bullied in rows about slavery, says Professor Ewen Cameron
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Jo Phoenix, academic likened to racist for her trans views, resigns from Open University
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  • Dec 4, 2021
‘Heartbroken’ professor accused of transphobic views quits Open University
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Britain needs new 'non-woke' universities
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  • Nov 28, 2021
Toby Young’s free speech campaign takes on university for silencing gender-critical scholars
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  • Nov 26, 2021
Open University professor’s harrowing account of what it feels like to be targeted by a trans hate mob
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  • Nov 24, 2021
Equalities minister Kemi Badenoch calls for new measures to tackle workplace harassment and bullying
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Kathleen Stock: Every British university has people like the ones who cancelled me
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  • Nov 19, 2021
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Professor Kathleen Stock and the toxic gender debate
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Sussex University faces watchdog ‘freedom of speech’ probe after academic Kathleen Stock quit
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  • Nov 17, 2021
Sussex University inquiry after trans row
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Kathleen Stock: Exiled academic joins free-speech college The University of Austin
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  • Nov 10, 2021
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  • Nov 9, 2021
Kathleen Stock takes job at anti-cancel culture university that welcomes ‘thought criminals’
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  • Nov 8, 2021
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  • Nov 5, 2021
Lecturers' union boss refuses to condemn ousting of feminist professor Kathleen Stock
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Kathleen Stock: Trans row professor ‘forced out’ by tweets
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Kathleen Stock says she quit university post over ‘medieval’ ostracism
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Kathleen Stock ‘fled university hyperventilating’ amid transphobia row
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  • Nov 3, 2021
Free speech row prof Kathleen Stock: Protests like anxiety dream
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  • Nov 3, 2021
Trans-row professor Kathleen Stock backed by minister Kemi Badenoch
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Sarah Ditum: Trans activism is on the retreat. Let’s hope Professor Stock is these bullies’ last victim
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  • Oct 31, 2021
Kathleen Stock’s departure shows universities can’t cope with argument
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  • Oct 30, 2021
Academics warn universities should stop pandering to students
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Kathleen Stock resigns: Trans students accuse Sussex Uni of depicting them as ‘powerful political operators’
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Transphobia row university professor quits after 'absolutely horrible time'
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  • Oct 29, 2021
Sussex university professor Kathleen Stock resigns after transgender rights row
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Kathleen Stock resigns from University of Sussex after trans rights row
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  • Oct 29, 2021
Trans-row professor quits university over ‘toxic’ environment
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  • Oct 28, 2021
Sussex professor resigns after transgender rights row
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  • Oct 28, 2021
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  • Oct 28, 2021
Kathleen Stock quits Sussex after transgender rights row
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  • Oct 28, 2021
Scotland: Glasgow University accused of undermining academic freedom by apologising for ‘antisemitic’ paper
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  • Oct 25, 2021
Glasgow University accused of undermining academic freedom in 'antisemitic' ruling
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  • Oct 25, 2021
Kathleen Stock and Sussex University: the war over academic freedom
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  • Oct 20, 2021
Open University professor ‘shunned’ for ‘transphobic’ views set to take legal action
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  • Oct 19, 2021
Over 200 academics call out UK universities for allowing 'trans activist bullies' to create 'hostile environment'
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  • Oct 17, 2021
200 academics tell of death threats and abuse as battle rages for free speech
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  • Oct 17, 2021
Campus in the spotlight: how Sussex became focus of row over trans rights
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  • Oct 16, 2021
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  • Oct 16, 2021
Bookshops are scared to display my work, claims trans row author Kathleen Stock
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  • Oct 15, 2021
Academic calls on universities minister to defend her freedom of speech
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  • Oct 14, 2021
Shadow women's minister wades into Sussex University professor trans row
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  • Oct 14, 2021
Michelle Donelan: Intimidation of Kathleen Stock is an attack on democratic ideals
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  • Oct 14, 2021
University transgender bullying row intensifies as Labour MP criticises vice-chancellor
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  • Oct 13, 2021
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  • Oct 13, 2021
Kathleen Stock: professor in trans row splits Labour and Tories
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  • Oct 13, 2021
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  • Oct 13, 2021
Universities union backs trans rights over threatened Sussex professor Kathleen Stock
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  • Oct 13, 2021
Professor says career ‘effectively ended’ by union’s transphobia claims
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  • Oct 12, 2021
Lecturers' union has 'effectively ended' my career, says professor at centre of gender identity row
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  • Oct 12, 2021
Kathleen Stock: UCU statement ‘ends my career’ at Sussex
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Union throws feminist professor under a bus in transphobia row
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Universities union backs trans rights over threatened professor Kathleen Stock
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  • Oct 12, 2021
Truss hits out at abuse of Kathleen Stock, professor in trans dispute
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  • Oct 11, 2021
Feminist university professor is told to get bodyguards after balaclava-clad students demanded she be sacked
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  • Oct 10, 2021
Professor accused of Islamophobia blasts university bosses for saying they 'recognised students' concerns'
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  • Oct 10, 2021
Kathleen Stock, the Sussex University professor in trans row, urged to get bodyguards
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Professor hits back in ‘toxic’ transgender row
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  • Oct 8, 2021
University defends ‘academic freedoms’ after calls to sack professor
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  • Oct 7, 2021
Pro-transgender activists try to ‘bully’ university into sacking professor who questioned their views
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  • Oct 7, 2021
Sussex University students campaign to have ‘transphobic’ professor Kathleen Stock sacked
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Cancel culture: ‘fish out of water’ academics feel it most
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  • Sep 29, 2021
Royal Holloway music professor quits over cancel culture
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  • Sep 20, 2021
‘Proportionate’ free speech bill would be ‘welcome’, says UUK
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  • Sep 14, 2021
Almost half of public against letting ‘no-platformed’ extremists sue universities
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  • Sep 14, 2021
Policy Exchange proposals on free speech and harassment get to the nub of the issue
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  • Sep 13, 2021
Woke fightback! Equality laws could change so universities can't ban public speakers
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  • Sep 13, 2021
Nearly half against allowing extremists to sue universities for no-platforming
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Gavin Williamson says universities should end cancel culture and stop teaching students via Zoom
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  • Sep 9, 2021
Universities pursuing ‘divisive agenda’ by ‘cancelling national heroes’, Gavin Williamson says
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  • Sep 9, 2021
Universities in England favour cancel culture over quality, says Williamson
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  • Sep 9, 2021
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Academics speak out on rising tensions at UK-China branch campuses
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  • Aug 19, 2021
UK academics fear reprisals for speaking out on sensitive issues
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The Guardian view on academic freedom: ministers’ claims don’t add up
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  • Jul 18, 2021
University charity Advance HE compromises free speech, say MPs as they demand an inquiry
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James Tooley: We must do more to protect academics from harassment
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  • Jul 13, 2021
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  • Jul 12, 2021
Scotland: Students want to dictate teaching, says Edinburgh University
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  • Jun 18, 2021
Edinburgh University academic cleared of wrongdoing refuses to return to teaching until complainants are 'challenged'
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  • Jun 16, 2021
Don accuses Cambridge University of suppressing his pro-Brexit article
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  • Jun 14, 2021
Scotland: Taxpayers fund software accused of stifling free speech on campus
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  • Jun 14, 2021
Queen’s birthday honours: Nigel Biggar appointed CBE after storm over his colonial views
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  • Jun 12, 2021
Cambridge chief under pressure to give dons a say on free speech rules
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  • Jun 7, 2021
Only one in six in favour of no-platforming controversial speakers
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  • Jun 7, 2021
'Woke snitching forums' used to report lecturers' microaggressions could land universities in court
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  • Jun 6, 2021
Lecturers who avoid eye contact could be reported as 1 in 4 top universities monitor 'microaggressions'
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  • May 29, 2021
‘Micro-aggressions’ list was a mistake, admits Cambridge vice-chancellor
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  • May 27, 2021
Cambridge dons celebrate removal of 'micro-aggressions' website
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  • May 26, 2021
Cambridge dons in open revolt over 'micro-aggressions' website
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  • May 25, 2021
The 'free speech' law will make university debate harder, not easier | David Renton
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  • May 22, 2021
Kathleen Stock: taboo around gender identity has chilling effect on academics
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  • May 22, 2021
Cambridge accused of creating ‘police state’ where dons can be reported for raising an eyebrow
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  • May 20, 2021
Scotland: ‘Stellar’ lecturer suspended after students accuse him of racism
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Context, academic freedom and the ethics of internationalisation
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  • Apr 23, 2021
Scotland: Puritan bullies are trying to end my career, claims lecturer
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UUK responds to Chinese government sanctions on UK academic
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China denounced over ‘grave threat to academic freedom’
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  • Mar 26, 2021
Why “academic freedom” is no defence of the Bristol University professor David Miller
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  • Mar 22, 2021
Free speech at universities under threat from 'creeping therapeutic culture'
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  • Mar 19, 2021
Bahram Bekhradnia: The White Paper on free speech is intellectually flimsy
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  • Mar 17, 2021
It’s the government that’s about to have a chilling effect on student free speech and expression
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  • Mar 15, 2021
Cambridge University students host free-speech event for silenced academics
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  • Mar 8, 2021
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  • Mar 8, 2021
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  • Mar 8, 2021
Ignore this manufactured crisis: free speech is alive and well in our universities | John Bowers and David Isaac
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  • Mar 5, 2021
Oxford study shaping free speech plans ‘could have been improved’
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Is Michelle Donelan deliberately trolling us now?
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  • Mar 1, 2021
What if…? Thoughts on Gavin Williamson’s ‘landmark’ proposals to strengthen ‘free speech’ at universities
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Daniel Finkelstein: Bristol University should sack conspiracist professor
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  • Feb 23, 2021
HE needs the right rules to protect free speech and tackle degree fraud
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  • Feb 22, 2021
The sector should resist calls to junk work on race and racism
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  • Feb 20, 2021
Universities are facing pressing issues. ‘Free speech on campus' isn’t one
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  • Feb 18, 2021
A new 'free speech champion' may end up doing the opposite | Alison-Scott Baumann
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Anti-Brexit 'harassment' forced academics into 'underground group' to protect free speech
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  • Feb 17, 2021
Top colleges at Oxford are in the grip of 'unconscious bias' training
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  • Feb 16, 2021
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  • Feb 16, 2021
UK government criticised over plans to oversee free speech at universities
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Gavin Williamson hits out at campuses that ‘stifle freedom of speech’
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  • Feb 16, 2021
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  • Feb 16, 2021
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  • Feb 16, 2021
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  • Feb 16, 2021
Government free speech proposals represent a breakdown of trust and confidence
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Plan for campus free speech post prompts autonomy warning
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  • Feb 16, 2021
Podcast: Are new campus free speech laws really necessary?
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Gavin Williamson launches plan to protect free speech and combat ‘unacceptable silencing’
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  • Feb 16, 2021
Proposed free speech law will make English universities liable for breaches
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  • Feb 16, 2021
Boris to announce new measures to combat 'cancel culture' at universities
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Students and academics will be able to sue universities for censoring free speech under planned Government crackdown
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  • Feb 16, 2021
Measures to protect free speech on university campuses unveiled
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New free speech rules target English universities
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  • Feb 16, 2021
Tories accused of war on 'phantom threats' to free speech with university fines plan
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  • Feb 16, 2021
‘Free speech’ academics can seek legal redress
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  • Feb 16, 2021
Matthew Goodwin: Academics like me live in fear of the woke hate mob
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Margaret Thatcher's old Oxford college Somerville makes all students take an 'unconscious bias' test
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English minister’s academic freedom broadside ‘confects conflict’
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Cambridge University rejects proposal it be 'respectful' of all views
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Cambridge scholars force through free speech policy changes
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Cambridge academics oppose ‘freedom of speech’ rules
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  • Nov 27, 2020
Covid ‘reveals new vulnerabilities’ in academic freedom
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The Times view on Chinese influence at Scottish universities: Degree of Caution
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Academics back refusing funding over human rights concerns
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  • Oct 15, 2020
Call to protect academic freedom in overseas partnerships
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  • Oct 12, 2020
Academics want say over university deals with hostile regimes
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  • Oct 2, 2020
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Academic freedom is precious – so why have UK universities sold out to China? | Peter Wilby
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This so called culture war is a phoney one
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  • Aug 7, 2020
The rightwing defence of 'academic freedom' masks a McCarthyite agenda | Jonathan Portes
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University bigots want to control minorities | Trevor Phillips
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  • Aug 4, 2020
The 'woke' have won - it's too late for our unis if academics need to hide their views
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  • Aug 3, 2020
Free speech risk as university staff feel need to censor pro-Brexit views
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  • Aug 3, 2020
Proposals on academic freedom would achieve anything but
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  • Aug 3, 2020
Four in ten Brexit-backing lecturers feel silenced at their universities
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UK academics ‘discriminate against political opposites’ – survey
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Right-leaning or pro-Brexit academics are 'censored' on British university campuses, report warns
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UK lecturers 'strongly support colleagues' academic freedom'
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Right-wing academics ‘forced to hide views’
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Academics feel forced to self-censor
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Academic freedom in danger at universities as staff self-censor, report warns
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Academic freedom under threat as pro-Brexit professors face discrimination and are self-censoring
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Universities must tackle cancel culture to qualify for loans, says Government
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Ireland: UCD scraps plan to weaken policy on academic freedom
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  • Apr 9, 2020
UK government to tackle foreign interference at universities
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UCD row exposes tensions between academic freedom and global links
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Tory campus free speech bill would ‘stoke new culture war’
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Under half of UK students support freedom of speech
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China tries to gag UK universities
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Universities 'undermined by overseas autocracies'
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  • Nov 5, 2019
'Alarming' Chinese meddling at UK universities exposed in report
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Academic freedom: repressive government measures taken against universities in more than 60 countries
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  • Oct 29, 2019
Tory manifesto co-author bemoaned ‘activist academics’
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Academic freedom is under threat around the world – here’s how to defend it
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Trans inclusion doesn’t conflict with academic freedom
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  • Sep 4, 2019
Call for Europe-wide ‘academic freedom defence’ to meet Orbán threat
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  • Jul 18, 2019
Noah Carl, academic freedom and Cambridge University - a moral failure
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West 'failed' university forced from Hungary
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In defence of academic freedom
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  • May 15, 2019
University rankings don't measure freedom of speech and academic freedom - why not?
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UK v-c: ban on working with Huawei would infringe on academic freedom
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Singapore ‘fake news’ law ‘threatens academic freedom worldwide’
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Clear ethical lines are needed for industry collaboration
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  • Mar 27, 2019
Threatened scholars: online harassment risks academic freedom
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  • Feb 14, 2019
Call for sector guidelines on academic freedom on social media
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  • Jan 31, 2019
The gender wars, academic freedom and education
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  • Jan 25, 2019
Challenging notions of academic freedom | Letters
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  • Jan 17, 2019
The Guardian view on academic freedom: the right to be very wrong | Editorial
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  • Jan 14, 2019
Hungary: Threatened university faces final deadline
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  • Nov 30, 2018
Universities risk their reputation with links to regimes
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Academic freedom “fundamental” after UAE ruling
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Academic freedom: I spent four months at UAE’s national university – this is what I found
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Academic freedom and liberal values under attack in Hungary
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  • Aug 16, 2018
In UK universities there is a daily erosion of integrity | Stefan Collini
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  • Apr 24, 2018
When should academics speak out, and when should we listen?
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  • Apr 12, 2018
Turkey: University crackdown raises fears for academic freedom
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  • Apr 11, 2018
Academic freedom at risk at Hong Kong's universities, says report
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  • Jan 22, 2018
Edinburgh University's new vice-chancellor condemned in staff survey
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  • Jan 8, 2018
An anatomy of judgement: how do ‘snowflakes’ think?
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  • Dec 12, 2017
Oxford academic claims Trump protest led to 'excommunication'
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  • Oct 31, 2017
Brexit witch-hunt against universities reveals the right’s paranoid thinking
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  • Oct 31, 2017
Call for university ‘brave spaces’ to protect free speech
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  • Oct 30, 2017
Ruth Davidson: Brexit or not, university education has no borders
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  • Oct 29, 2017
Chris Bickerton: my fellow dons tolerated us leavers - until we won
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  • Oct 29, 2017
Euan McColm: Keep your noses out of universities
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  • Oct 28, 2017
In the news: 27 October 2017
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  • Oct 27, 2017
Do 'no platform' policies threaten free speech at uni? Students share their views
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  • Oct 26, 2017
Our Remainer universities: As an MP provokes a storm by asking what students are being taught about leaving the EU, the extent of anti-Brexit bias and the academics who push Remain propaganda are laid bare
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  • Oct 26, 2017
The patronising, elitist hysteria of universities over being asked about Brexit will harden the views of millions who voted for it
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  • Oct 26, 2017
Freedom of thought is a democratic right
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  • Oct 25, 2017
Anti-EU Tory MP who demanded Brexit course details from universities 'was just working on a book'
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  • Oct 25, 2017
Brexit, academic freedom and where the law stands on universities being quizzed about what they teach
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  • Oct 25, 2017
MP who asked for list of tutors lecturing on Brexit 'was doing research'
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  • Oct 25, 2017
Universities minister criticises Tory MP’s Brexit letter
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  • Oct 25, 2017
MP's Brexit letter to universities 'was research for book'
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  • Oct 25, 2017
Jo Johnson: Heaton-Harris letter should not have been sent
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  • Oct 25, 2017
Tory whip sent 'sinister' letters to universities asking for names of Brexit professors
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  • Oct 24, 2017
The Guardian view on universities and Brexit: culture wars | Editorial
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  • Oct 24, 2017
Brexit ‘McCarthyism’ is unacceptable to universities. Free speech must flourish | Janet Beer
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  • Oct 24, 2017
Angela Rayner cays Brexiteer government should 'keep its nose out' of universities
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  • Oct 24, 2017
In the news: 15 September 2017
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  • Sep 15, 2017
University cleaners trained to spot students at risk from extremism
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  • Aug 1, 2017
USA / Hungary: New York governor says progress in Hungary university talks
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  • Jun 26, 2017
In the news: 26 May 2017
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  • May 26, 2017
UK academics warn of low levels of protection for academic freedom
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  • May 25, 2017
Lord Lawson: lack of free speech at universities is a 'great blight of our age'
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  • Apr 29, 2017
Universities must 'push back' against Government's international student crackdown, says CEU chief
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  • Apr 29, 2017
Students step in to host union meeting banned by Manchester Metropolitan University
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Shock as Manchester Metropolitan University bans union meeting
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Higher Education and Research Bill: Lords amendments
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  • Apr 26, 2017
Hungary’s assault on academic freedom is a threat to European principles
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  • Apr 10, 2017
University freedoms are at risk, say critics
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  • Apr 8, 2017
In the news: 31 March 2017
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  • Mar 31, 2017
Staff force emergency meeting at University of Warwick in jobs row
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  • Mar 20, 2017
University 'safe spaces' are a dangerous fallacy - they do not exist in the real world
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  • Feb 13, 2017
You only get what you pay for. Or do you?
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  • Feb 13, 2017
Prevent is not a safety net - it is a programme designed to censor academic freedom
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Exeter student US trip ban 'undermines academic freedom'
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Universities monitored your emails long before Prevent - don't believe the NUS's fake news
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  • Jan 26, 2017
The ancient argument, royal charters and universities
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  • Jan 23, 2017
Students are paying too much for too little - that's why reform in the university sector is vital
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  • Jan 10, 2017
Lords amendment sets robust minimum standards for universities
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Free Rein? The question of academic freedom
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The 'snooper's charter' is a threat to academic freedom
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  • Dec 1, 2016