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Committee for Academic Freedom
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The law has changed. The culture hasn’t. Exposing threats to academic freedom in UK universities — and pushing institutions to meet their free-speech duties.
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    Committee for Academic Freedom
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    Jul 13
    🚨 BREAKING: The Committee for Academic Freedom (CAF) is supporting a working-class student who left school at 13 and spent years saving and studying after work to get into university, but who may now be forced to abandon his PhD after being frozen out on an art programme. His
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    Committee for Academic Freedom
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    Oct 20, 2025
    Encouraging news from Oxford: the university’s new chancellor, Lord Hague, has vowed there will be “no safe spaces” under his tenure — urging students to expect uncomfortable ideas and debate, not protection from offence. He’s also backed full implementation of the Higher
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    Committee for Academic Freedom
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    Oct 22, 2025
    🚨 Nearly 1,000 academics have now signed an open letter defending an Israeli-born professor at City, University of London, branded a “terrorist” and “war criminal” by activists calling for his dismissal over compulsory military service in the 1980s. Read and add your name here:
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    Committee for Academic Freedom
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    Oct 27, 2025
    More than 1,600 academics, writers and public figures — including around 30 members of the House of Lords — have signed an open letter defending Israeli-born Professor Michael Ben-Gad after a campaign of harassment over his nationality. Those backing the appeal said they
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    Academics and peers rally behind Israeli-born professor amid campus intimidation row - Committee...
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    Committee for Academic Freedom
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    Mar 13, 2025
    🧵(1/4) Breaking: CAF has obtained Stonewall "Workplace Equality Index" submissions from 13 out of a total of 24 Russell Group universities using Freedom of Information requests. The submissions reveal the corrosive influence the organisation has had on UK higher education.
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    Committee for Academic Freedom
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    Jul 28, 2024
    42 academics write to the Observer today to urge the government to implement the Freedom of Speech Act. See full list of signatories here: theguardian.com/theobserver/ar…
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    Committee for Academic Freedom
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    Oct 15, 2025
    “There was an absolutely vicious campaign to shut down any discussion.” Prof Alice Sullivan, speaking on our second panel, “Censorship in the Sciences: Free Inquiry Under Pressure,” described the irruption of gender ideology into public life and the pernicious effect of a no
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    Committee for Academic Freedom
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    Feb 14, 2025
    Students are calling for cancellations of Helen Joyce (@HJoyceGender) and Michael Biggs By standing up for free speech and not caving to the pressure, Oxford sets a strong example for other universities. Keep it up! @SpeechUnion @AFAF_freespeech cherwell.org/2025/02/11/oxf…
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    Committee for Academic Freedom
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    Oct 20, 2025
    🚨 Breaking: Two members of CAF’s Advisory Board — Professors Alice Sullivan (@ProfAliceS, UCL) and Abhishek Saha (@ObhishekSaha, Queen Mary) — are among a growing number of academics speaking out after a City, University of London professor was branded a “terrorist” and targeted
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    Committee for Academic Freedom
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    Oct 21, 2025
    Over 600 scholars have now signed the open letter condemning the campaign against Professor Michael Ben-Gad and supporting his personal and intellectual freedom as an academic. Credit to colleagues at @AFAF_freespeech and the London Universities’ Council for Academic Freedom
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    Committee for Academic Freedom
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    Sep 12, 2024
    And now another Nobel laureate has added his name: Michael Levitt (Chemistry, 2013). That's 7 Nobel prize winners and 14 Fellows of the Royal Society. Britain's top scientists want to protect free speech in universities.
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    Committee for Academic Freedom
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    Sep 11, 2024
    Six Nobel laureates plus the Oxford Professor for the Public Understanding of Science @MarcusduSautoy have signed the open letter urging Phillipson not to repeal the Higher Education Freedom of Speech Act. The message is clear: to attack free speech is to attack science.
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    Committee for Academic Freedom
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    Mar 13, 2025
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    (4/4) We call on UK universities to regain their independence and dignity by breaking links with this pernicious institution. Read our full report here:
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    How Stonewall corrupted British Higher Education - Committee For Academic Freedom
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    Committee for Academic Freedom
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    Aug 20, 2025
    🧵(1/5) @KingsCollegeLon is requiring job applicants for a Music History lecturer role to provide evidence of support for “equality, diversity & inclusion” This could be a direct breach of the new legal duty to protect free speech in universities.
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