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Category: University

In defence of difference – 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 201927th July 2020 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

Louise Richardson: free-speech hero

Over 2,640 students’ union officers, LGBTQ+ activists, academics and students have signed a letter demanding an apology from Professor Louise Richardson, vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford. What did Richardson do to […]

17th September 201717th September 2017 Dennis Hayes free speech, Louise Richardson, offence, University

What is the point of a university?

Should a university privilege knowledge or skills? Are ideas central to its mission or should university education focus on employability? Should universities be free and open to discuss everything or […]

17th September 201717th September 2017 Dennis Hayes University
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 and College Union

Academic Freedom Motion for UCU Congress 2017

Academic Freedom Congress instructs the NEC to bring to Congress in 2018 a statement in defence of Academic Freedom as an addition to UCU Rules Section 2 ‘Aims and Objects’.

22nd January 201717th February 2020 Dennis Hayes free speech, University
Prevent

Will preventing ‘radicalisation’ mean the death of debate?

The government’s ‘Prevent’ strategy sees the sudden psychological ‘radicalisation’ of vulnerable children and young people as the cause of today’s apparently meaningless acts of terrorism.

30th October 201610th May 2017 Dennis Hayes free speech, University

Book Launch – Academic Freedom Matters

27th October 201631st May 2017 Dennis Hayes free speech, News, 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

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

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