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Protecting Academic Freedom: A Major Success

Protecting Academic Freedom: A Major Success Affinity has won a complex grievance against a major university which sought to restrict one of its staff from undertaking a research project based on an unjustifiable objection to an element of the research. For reasons...

Important Step Forward In Securing Academic Freedom

All Members, Free Speech

Important Step Forward In Securing Academic Freedom As our university and college members will be very aware, new legislation in the form of The Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill has now been passed giving academics significant and much needed protection when...

Employers Must Respect The Law On Freedom Of Expression

All Members, Free Speech

Employers Must Respect The Law On Freedom Of Expression In the last two years we’ve dealt with an increasing number of cases where complainants of one persuasion or another have sought to silence people with whom they disagree, by making complaints to their...

Defending Free Speech in Universities: A Trade Union You Can Trust

Advice, All Members, Free Speech

Defending Free Speech in Universities: A Trade Union You Can Trust One of the main functions of a university is to create an environment in which people can safely explore new ideas and theories, however unpopular or unconventional they may be, without fear of...

Protecting Academic Freedom: A Major Success

Important Step Forward In Securing Academic Freedom

Employers Must Respect The Law On Freedom Of Expression

Defending Free Speech in Universities: A Trade Union You Can Trust

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