Originally hailed as one of the central mechanisms intended to make the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act enforceable on the ground, the statutory complaints scheme for staff and students at English higher education providers who believe their free speech…
Masked activists allegedly threatened to behead an Israeli-born professor during a lecture at a London university, in the most serious escalation of an ongoing student-led campaign to have him dismissed over his nationality and links to Israel’s military. Michael Ben-Gad,…
Foreign interference in UK higher education has once again come under scrutiny following comments by Professor Arif Ahmed, the Office for Students’ (OfS) Director for Freedom of Speech and Academic Freedom. Speaking in the wake of his keynote address at…
The University of Leeds has introduced a sweeping “decolonising” programme that requires academic departments to embed its principles across their core academic activity, in a move that places the institution on a potential collision course with the recently commenced Higher…
Four prominent London universities have Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity training courses which misstate the law and force their staff to affirm controversial points of view. CAF has seen Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity (EDI) training courses, and spoken to academics who…
The Office for Student’s proposed guidance for students’ unions on their duties to secure free speech contains little useful information. Under the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act, students’ unions have a duty to take “reasonably practicable” steps to secure…