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The Government's Higher Education Freedom of Speech Act

Amir Naqvi writes about the government's Higher Education Freedom of Speech Act. The bill includes appointing a free-speech Tsar to secure freedom of speech in British universities. It also prohibits universities from making decisions about hiring and promotion as it applies to their university employees or academic employees on the grounds of what academics say is exercise of free speech, he says.

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