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Royal Microscopical Society adopts CAF recommendations on harassment and free expression
Royal Microscopical Society adopts CAF recommendations in full after concerns that its harassment provisions risked inadvertently restricting lawful expression.
OIA free-speech guidance for students reflects concerns raised by CAF
New OIA guidance on student free-speech complaints reflects concerns raised by CAF about academic judgment and universities’ new legal duties.
CAF supporting academics targeted after signing academic-freedom petition
CAF is supporting academics facing complaints, professional ostracism and institutional pressure after signing the Nathan Cofnas academic-freedom letter
New free-speech complaints scheme missing from almost nine in ten Russell Group staff procedures
CAF research finds most English Russell Group universities are failing to properly advertise the new OfS Free Speech Complaints Scheme.