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International Academic Freedom Day: AFAF and SAFAF Online Gathering

A call for institutional neutrality

Meet the groups leading the free speech fight-back against Britain’s ‘institutionally captured’ universities

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International Academic Freedom Day: AFAF and SAFAF Online Gathering

Sean Parker* gives a personal snapshot of the AFAF and SAFAF online gathering on International Academic Freedom Day 20 May 2025 “There is no university in the country that will […]

22nd May 202522nd May 2025 Dennis Hayes News, Uncategorised

A call for institutional neutrality

A letter to all UK Universities from the London Universities’ Council for Academic Freedom, Alumni for Free Speech, Academics For Academic Freedom, Committee for Academic Freedom, Pharos Foundation, Student Academics […]

19th April 2025 Dennis Hayes News, Uncategorised

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, […]

2nd October 2024 Dennis Hayes News, Uncategorised

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 […]

30th July 202430th July 2024 Dennis Hayes News, Uncategorised

Response to the Consultation on the OfS Regulatory Advice on Free Speech

Members of the AFAF network have a variety of views on the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023 (HEFOSA). These view range from scepticism about the state regulating freedoms, […]

30th May 202430th May 2024 Dennis Hayes News, Uncategorised

Happy International Academic Freedom Day!

Today, Monday 20 May, is International Academic Freedom Day (IAFD). The idea for such a day was proposed at the Academics For Academic Freedom (AFAF) National Conference in November last year. What […]

30th May 202430th May 2024 Dennis Hayes News, Uncategorised

A Tents Standoff At Trinity College Dublin

Felice Basbøll reports on Trinity College Dublin’s pro-Palestine encampment and what it means for free speech and the death of institutional neutrality* Last week, the students’ union at Trinity College […]

10th May 202410th May 2024 Dennis Hayes News, Uncategorised

Academics have internalised the fatwa. It is time to defend free speech, no ifs, no buts.

In a little over a week the attempted murder of Sir Salman Rushdie has vanished from the headlines. At the outset there were condemnations of the attack declaring it a […]

24th August 202225th August 2022 Dennis Hayes News, Uncategorised

The Shadow University

Richard Harris and Dennis Hayes discuss the threat to freedom of speech in what thay call the ‘shadow university’. In 1998, Alan Charles Kors and Harvey A. Silverglate wrote a […]

12th February 202114th February 2021 Dennis Hayes News, Uncategorised

The Secretive University

Stephen Baskerville discusses how US universities create secretive devices to silence academic heretics The most effective method for protecting academic freedom is almost certainly publicity.  (Tenure has not worked; neither […]

12th February 202113th February 2021 Dennis Hayes News, Uncategorised

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