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Do not impose new free speech conditions on higher education

Submitted by Jessica Green on Wednesday 17th February 2021

Published on Monday 8th March 2021

Current status: Closed

Closed: Wednesday 8th September 2021

Signatures: 44

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Tagged with

Censorship ~ Discipline ~ Education ~ Freedom ~ freespeech ~ Held ~ Higher Education ~ independence ~ Independent ~ New restrictions ~ Scrap ~ Scraps ~ Speaker ~ Speakers ~ Union ~ Universal ~ Universities

Petition Action

Do not impose new free speech conditions on higher education

Petition Details

The Government should scrap plans to impose new restrictions on universities under the premise of strengthening free speech and academic freedom, which could impinge on the ability of universities and student unions to make their own decisions about speakers and course content.

Additional Information

Universities are established, independent institutions with administrative processes already in place to make decisions on all of these issues, and are already held to national laws regarding discipline, dismissal and censorship.
Imposing new conditions on universities will restrict their independence, and could seriously harm the higher education sector if they are enacted.


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