Universities Australia has welcomed a review into academic freedom and freedom of expression announced by education minister Dan Tehan on Friday. Professor Sally Walker will conduct the review with the assistance of universities, focusing on their progress against former Chief ...
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A new report released by the Knight Foundation and Gallup shows that US college students generally support free speech, but a more nuanced analysis highlights a divide based on ethnicity and gender, as well as the insidious effect social media ...
More »ANU poll reveals public opinion on university roles, freedom of speech
The Australian public is more likely to trust university researchers than banks, the government and the press. That was one of the findings to come from the 29th ANUpoll. The research team pitted researchers against a group of eleven occupations ...
More »Tehan: taskforce comes as ‘targeting of Australian universities continues to increase’
Federal Education Minister Dan Tehan has unveiled the details of a university foreign interference taskforce announced during his address to the National Press Club in Canberra. “The information that our universities hold is of interest to foreign actors, and therefore ...
More »Are unis coddling the Australian mind? US social psychologist crowdsources question
The hurly-burly issue of free speech on campus has been particularly boisterous among the headlines these past few weeks, as universities cautiously deliberate whether to adopt the non-statutory “model code” enshrining this right, as put forward in a recommendation by ...
More »Freedom of speech debate erupts after ‘Cash Cows’ program
This week the National Tertiary Education Union called on Murdoch University to guarantee the jobs of three of its staff who spoke out during the Four Corners ‘Cash Cows’ episode on foreign fee-paying students. The call was prompted after Murdoch’s ...
More »No free speech crisis on campuses: French review
Australia’s universities are not facing a free speech crisis, says a new report. Minister for Education Dah Tehan asked former chief justice of the High Court of Australia Robert French to conduct a review on free speech late last year amid ...
More »Singapore academics criticised university rankings. Then their quotes disappeared.
Asian rankings darlings the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Nanyang Technological University are suffering internal tumult after 10 professors openly criticised them. An article published in Singaporean newspaper Today detailed how several high profile academics in non-STEM fields left ...
More »Academics, uni management skewer ‘overhyped’ campus free speech debate #CRFreeSpeech
Professor Marguerite Johnson bristles at the issue of free speech on campus being termed a 'fight'. But that is indeed how Campus Review labelled it at its recent seminar, 'The Fight for Free Speech: What it Means for Universities'. Held on ...
More »‘Contrived, pointless, and a total waste of taxpayer money’: groups respond to freedom of speech review
On Thursday, university personnel, fittingly, exercised their freedom of speech. Responding to the government's announcement of a review into freedom of speech on campus on Wednesday, the Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations (CAPA) came out on blast. "There is no ...
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