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Showing posts with label academic freedom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label academic freedom. Show all posts
Monday, March 30, 2026

Dr James Kierstead: Another academic freedom case

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Academic freedom has become a major concern at universities across the English-speaking world in recent years. Speakers have been disinvited...
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Sunday, December 28, 2025

David Farrar: Auckland Uni gets it right

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The Auckland University Freedom of Expression Statement looks very good. It is clear with few weasel words. Key extracts: The University ac...
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Sunday, December 7, 2025

Roger Partridge: The Open Mind and the Closed University

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Last month, Dame Anne Salmond issued a public challenge to the very idea of reason – the commitment to shared standards of inquiry that has...
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Thursday, October 30, 2025

Mike Grimshaw: Constrained and framed? The limitation of academic freedom by research funding and strategies

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While most debate on academic freedom concerns the question of what can be stated, argued, proffered and responded to – and how, such a focu...
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Wednesday, July 2, 2025

David Lillis and Peter Schwerdtfeger - Free Speech and Academic Freedom on Campus: a Manufactured Crisis?

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Are Claims of Suppression of Free Speech Not Real? In the Post of 26 June, Dr. Sereana Naepi and Emeritus Professor Peter Davis inform us th...
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Monday, June 16, 2025

Dr James Kierstead: How to put teeth in the bill

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At midnight last night, submissions closed on the Education and Training Amendment Bill (No. 2). The bill would introduce new measures to pr...
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Monday, May 19, 2025

Dr James Allan: Trump’s Lesson in Remedial Education

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I have hesitated to respond article-by-article to Roger Partridge’s continuing attacks on the Trump administration beyond my initial respons...
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Sunday, February 9, 2025

Dr James Kierstead: The heterodox hiatus

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A few years ago, when I was still a classics lecturer, I started to notice a disturbing trend. Scholars were being denounced on Twitter (RIP...
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Saturday, December 21, 2024

Universities must be neutral

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Academic freedom is a hot topic at the moment. The coalition agreement required universities to have academic freedom policies to receive go...
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Wednesday, August 28, 2024

Dr Oliver Hartwich: ‘Career suicide’ - the price of dissent in NZ universities

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“We have become a corporate body concerned about brand image in a content marketing world in a climate of cancel culture,” lamented one acad...
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David Farrar: NZ Initiative on academic freedom

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The NZ Initiative has published a thorough report on academic freedom. I’ll quote some data, and then their recommendations:
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Monday, July 29, 2024

David Farrar: Not much academic freedom at Massey

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Go read the story of Dr Paul Crowhurst . The short version is:
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Tuesday, July 16, 2024

David Farrar: Universities and the Treaty

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Grant Duncan writes : University management should take note of that, as there have been unrealistic efforts to force poorly defined “Treaty...
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Thursday, May 16, 2024

Henry Ergas: Universities offer course in self-serving cowardice

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When in Randall Jarrell’s Pictures from an Institution, a college president is accused of being a hypocrite, the novel’s narrator retorts th...
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Saturday, May 4, 2024

Beware the university seeking to limit the freedom of speech

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The Education and Training Act enshrines academic freedom in law. It distinguishes aspects of academic freedom over which the university its...
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Friday, March 8, 2024

Bryce Edwards: Rising toxicity in NZ politics

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A top university academic, selected by former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to head a big project aimed at reducing division and extremism i...
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Thursday, November 9, 2023

Mike Grimshaw: It’s about critiquing power, stupid!…

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Or the societal necessity to support (yet critique) Academic Freedom and Free Speech. The other day I attended the Free Speech Union AGM and...
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Wednesday, July 19, 2023

Penn Raine: The NZ University - Poacher turned Gamekeeper

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The communist revolutions in Russia, China, and Cambodia had tens of thousands of educators - intellectuals - killed.   Stalin’s and Mao’s e...
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Thursday, June 29, 2023

Bob Jones: More wisdom from Melissa Derby

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Melissa is a Senior lecturer (Education) at Waikato university and a Council member of the Free Speech Union. Her article below attacking di...
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Sunday, May 28, 2023

James Kierstead: Back to the farm

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Spread out over 8, 000 acres (hence ‘the Farm’), Stanford University’s campus is an impressive sight. Palms line the triumphant main drive. ...
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