A recent article for Times Higher Education reports what it calls a “climate of fear and uncertainty” for trans academics in the wake of two high-profile developments: the Supreme Court’s ruling that, for Equality Act purposes, “sex” means biological sex…
The Committee for Academic Freedom (CAF) is supporting Cambridge student Thea Sewell and has brought her case to public attention, prompting today’s Telegraph report on the treatment of students with gender-critical views at the University of Cambridge. CAF has now…
The new Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, Lord Smith of Finsbury, has said he will place the defence of academic freedom and free speech at the centre of his role – although previous statements point to a more ambivalent…
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…