Category: News
Know Your Free Speech Rights
As the 2024-2025 academic year begins, we re-publish this one-page guide to your free speech rights at university or college. This was produced by the Best Free Speech Practice project […]
AFAF Annual Conference 2024
The Academics For Academic Freedom Annual Conference 2024 will be held on Saturday 23 November in Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Street, London. The formal Conference opens at 13.00 and […]
The Canceling of the American Mind
From universities to public office, schools to social clubs, the pernicious reach of cancel culture seems to know no bounds. While ‘cancellation’ may once have been reserved for high-profile celebrities, […]
Sign this open letter to Bridget Phillipson
Dear Bridget Phillipson, We write as academics to urge the government to implement the remaining provisions of Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act (HEFOSA), which were due to come into […]
The War on Free Speech in Higher Education
The pausing of the freedom of speech Act has failed all students, argues Student AFAF, in the first post for their new Substack* Why did we set up SAFAF? SAFAF […]
Changing the Equality Act
In this discussion piece, Mark Lilly* argues for a change to the Equality Act 2010 There is general agreement that the effect of the provisions of the Equality Act 2010, […]
Academic freedom is an individual right
Jim Butcher discusses whether academic freedom in an institutional or an individual freedom. Everyone now seems to agree that academic freedom is important. But not everyone defines it in the […]
Reflections on Institutional Neutrality
In this guest post, Guy Whitehouse discusses arguments for and against institutional neutrality after Harvard University accepted the conclusions of a working party report on ‘Institutional Voice’ and stated that […]
After Cass: the lessons for higher education
Robert Laverick and Georgia Testa argue that higher education should champion academic freedom and equality, not Stonewall The trans inclusion policies of higher education institutions are increasingly failing to reflect […]
Sign the Brussels Free Speech Declaration
Please take the opportunity to be a founding signatory of the Brussels Free Speech Declaration. It will be launched soon by MCC Brussels. This a statement by MCC Brussels giving […]