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AFAF and SAFAF at the Battle of Ideas

Should the state punish universities?

Battle of Ideas Festival 2025

Category: academic freedom

A free speech checklist  

Twelve ways in which universities can ensure and promote free speech This is AFAF’s version of a list of examples that resulted from discussions between the major free speech organisations, […]

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18th June 202520th August 2025 Dennis Hayes academic freedom, News

Campus Free Speech: A Cultural Approach

Adam Kissel Key Points US colleges and universities have well-documented cultures of self-censorship of disfavored views. In contrast, free expression is consistent with campus values of toleration, diversity and inclusion. […]

1st December 20203rd December 2020 Dennis Hayes academic freedom, Campus, free speech, News, USA

Will academic freedom be upheld at the University of Kent?

Academic mobbing became more vicious last week. Academics from the University of Kent at Canterbury (UKC) and other universities appealed in an open letter to the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Karen Cox, […]

24th February 202027th July 2020 Dennis Hayes academic freedom, censorship, News, Uncategorised

Rise up for academic freedom!

Reflections on the past decade can be depressing. Two articles from the end of that decade are particularly dispiriting because they bring into focus the absurdity of contemporary university culture. […]

31st January 202027th July 2020 Dennis Hayes academic freedom, free speech, News, rise up!

In defence of debate – oppose all mandatory training on controversial topics

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), a group campaigning for free speech in the US, opposes all forms of mandatory training for academics or students: Liberty cannot exist […]

25th November 20198th August 2023 Dennis Hayes academic freedom, free speech, News, University, viewpoint diversity

Killing Controversy: the silencing of speech

One of the dominant ideas of our times is the belief that certain words and thoughts are unacceptable. From European hate-speech laws to online censorship and no-platforming at universities, free […]

3rd October 20193rd October 2019 Dennis Hayes academic freedom, colonialism, free speech, University

Open Letter to The Times on Assad and Academic Freedom

This is a letter to The Times that was not published. We publish a version  here with signatures in support. We are happy to add further names, please use the […]

18th April 201819th April 2018 Dennis Hayes academic freedom, free speech, The Times

Did Heaton-Harris revive support for academic freedom?

On 24 October I received an email from a journalist assuming I’d be ‘outraged’ by the McCartheyism of  Tory MP Christopher Heaton-Harris who had written a letter to all the […]

17th December 20178th August 2023 Dennis Hayes academic freedom, Brexit, censorship, free speech
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