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Solidarity with Kathleen Stock, Defend Academic Freedom

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The UK’s Charlie Hebdo moment

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Category: censorship

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

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 20174th March 2018 Dennis Hayes academic freedom, Brexit, censorship, free speech
Free Speech: University rankings

Free Speech University Rankings 2017

The 2017 Free Speech University Rankings (FSUR) – sponsored by AFAF – is out. spiked’s groundbreaking analysis of campus censorship in the UK has published its third annual report, and […]

26th February 201725th August 2017 Dennis Hayes censorship, free speech, University
University of St Andrews Union Debating Society

‘This house would never limit free speech on student campuses’

Tom Slater, deputy editor of the online current affairs magazine spiked! and co-ordinator of the Free Speech University Rankings (FSUR) and Dennis Hayes, professor of education at the University of Derby […]

12th September 201610th May 2017 Dennis Hayes censorship, free speech, University

Why Academic Freedom Matters

A ‘must read’ new book out this September from Civitas with contributions from many AFAF supporters including Jenny Jarvie, Dennis Hayes, Cheryl Hudson (ed.), Tara McCormack, Jason Walsh and Joanna Williams […]

20th July 201612th September 2016 Dennis Hayes censorship, free speech

Vote Elrica for Freedom of Speech

Elrica Degirmen is standing for the position of Education Officer in the University of Manchester NUS Elections on a free speech platform…if you can, vote for her, if not publicise […]

1st March 2016 Dennis Hayes censorship, free speech, University

The new intolerance on campus

‘The new intolerance on campus‘ is an afternoon of debate as part of the launch events for Spiked‘s Free Speech University Rankings (FSUR) which are sponsored by AFAF. “When speakers are […]

16th February 2016 Dennis Hayes censorship, free speech, University
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