Students should be ready to be shocked and offended at university, Government free speech champion Arif Ahmed has said, as he warned universities they face fines from August if they fail to uphold free speech.
Everyone knows US universities have been captured by discriminatory Leftist DEI ideology. But some conservatives just can't bring themselves to support Trump when he tries to do something about it, says Prof James Allan.
Almost 200 professors and lecturers have written to the Government criticising DEI plans to link research funding to "robustly" promoting diversity, saying they are a serious risk to research quality and academic freedom.
Trump's clash with Harvard shows a deeper culture war over what universities should be, with the Government pushing for merit and neutrality while Harvard clings to power and privilege, says Prof James Alexander.
By dropping the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act, the Education Secretary has declared war on the culture of free speech on campus. The fight-back starts here, says Claire Fox in the Telegraph.
Laurie Wastell has written an excellent piece in the Spectator about the mobbing of Nathan Cofnas – a Cambridge post-doc who is under investigation because of a controversial blog post he wrote last February.
Intellectual flip-flops on lockdowns and vaccines reveal the institutional pressures on so-called experts, argues Jeffrey A Tucker. They simply cannot afford to be fearless truth-tellers.
Over 100 academics from top U.K. universities have formed the London Universities' Council for Academic Freedom, with the goal of protecting free speech, intellectual diversity and open discourse on university campuses.
Durham University is encouraging academics to 'decolonise' degree courses by providing them with a 'woke toolkit' aimed at removing non-inclusive content from lessons.
The Left and the Right need to reconsider their blind spots, argues Kathleen Stock in a withering critique of an essay by Vogue's favourite philosopher, Amia Srinivasan.
