Students excluded from university free speech complaints system
A new freedom of speech complaints system for England’s universities has come under fire for excluding students...
The scheme was proposed in 2023 by the previous Tory government under the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act and was intended to apply to students, as well as staff and visiting speakers.
Key parts of the act – including the complaints scheme – were set to be introduced in August 2024 but were shelved just days before by Bridget Phillipson in one of her first moves in Government.
Although the Education Secretary later revived the act after facing legal action from the Free Speech Union (FSU), several key elements were watered down, including the use of the complaints scheme by students.
Modern education means handing down the customs of the minority, and rooting out the customs of the majority.
G. K. Chesterton - What's Wrong with the World (1910)
4 comments:
Free Speech is dangerous... the wrong sort of people may expose others to wrongthink through their words. {sarcasm}
It confirms yet again that politicians uncertain of their control become more and more authoritarian.
DJ - "It confirms yet again that politicians uncertain of their control become more and more authoritarian."
Spot on and that's what we are seeing.
Universities as bastions of free speech? Nein Danke.
Tammly - that's it, look at some of the products.
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