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Freedom of speech, lifts, and the importance of terminology

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As the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill returns to Parliament today, HEPI is running two blogs on the issue. This blog was kindly contributed by Andrew. Recent HEPI publications: Josh Freeman, ‘No Platform: Speaker Events at University Debating Unions’ , HEPI report 153, 13 October 2022. Get our updates via email.

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Universities stepping up to promote free speech and academic freedom

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As the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill returns to Parliament today, HEPI is running two blogs on the issue. This blog was kindly contributed by Professor Steve West, President of Universities UK and Vice-Chancellor of the University of the West of England, Bristol (UWE). Get our updates via email. Email Address.

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Institutional autonomy: does it need an ‘academic community’?

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Of the 228 Further Education Colleges in England, 153 provide Foundation Degrees and (83%) offer undergraduate and higher degree courses. Get our updates via email Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. The Further Education and Training Act (2007) s.19

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When Two Tribes go to war: How should universities respond to the criticisms of wokeness from Matthew Goodwin and others?

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This blog by HEPI Director , Nick Hillman, looks at two new books that touch upon higher education and ‘wokeness’, including Matthew Goodwin’s Voice, Values and Virtue. In October 2022, HEPI published No Platform: Speaker Events at University Debating Unions (HEPI Report 153). appeared first on HEPI.

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Most UK universities have failed to meet their carbon reduction targets: Reducing ambition and embracing offsetting is not the solution

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This is the second recent HEPI blog on universities and climate change – the other can b e accessed here. [1] Celebration of far-off target setting and dubious carbon offsetting must be abandoned in favour of realistic and rapid decarbonisation in the here and now.

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Did Egalitarians Wreck the British Education System? – Review of ‘A Revolution Betrayed’ by Peter Hitchens

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The book comments ‘Are we wrong to see in this, deep down, a stern recognition that this outcome was just? The two girls were both plainly very bright. But one “idled and failed”‘ (p.153).