by Becca Bashford | Aug 4, 2020 | Academic freedom, Free speech, Government, In the News, Office for Students, Opinion, Uncategorized
Words by Eric Lybeck, Presidential Academic Fellow at the Manchester Institute of Education. Yesterday, Policy Exchange published a report on academic freedom in British universities drawing on a flawed survey with inconclusive results. This did not stop major...
by CDBU Admin | Nov 29, 2016 | Government, Guest blog, Office for Students
Guest blog by G.R.Evans Rudd forced to rethink work visa plans for foreign students (The Times, 23 November), ‘Vice-chancellors warn there could be a legal challenge if metrics designed to assess teaching quality were used for immigration purposes.’ The article had...
by CDBU Admin | Aug 9, 2016 | Free speech, Government, Higher Education and Research Act, Uncategorized
No 4 in a series of Guest posts by G. R. Evans The problem-areas flagged up here are technical but they are also of fundamental importance to academics because they affect academic freedom and the institutional autonomy of providers of higher education. These are...
by CDBU Admin | Dec 5, 2014 | Free speech, Opinion
Opinion piece by Howard Hotson The new counter-terrorism bill emerging from the Home Office late in 2014 includes a significant piece of ad hoc university legislation: the requirement that universities ban ‘extremists’ from speaking on campus. This proposed...
by CDBU Admin | Oct 29, 2014 | Free speech, Uncategorized
Opinion piece by Howard Hotson, October 29th 2014 Professor Thomas Docherty ‘Professor suspended from top university for giving off “negative vibes”.’ Thus read the headline in The Telegraph on Friday 24 October. ‘Professor at top university was suspended for nine...
