England’s higher education providers have been set free.
Free from a prolonged period of uncertainty, an uncertainty of what the legislation about academic freedom and freedom of speech would do.
Even up to the last week of a two year process, there was scope for last minute changes. Now we know. There are no more unknown unknowns, but to be honest there are a certain number of known unknowns.
Iain Mansfield has tweeted that the act is already working. Eric Kaufman has welcomed it as triumphant and Matt Goodwin has opened the champagne. There’s much still to be done to bring in the full effect of the law through guidelines and codes of practice, but the spirit of the law now applies.
