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Posted by admin in Academic Freedom, News on 07. Nov, 2008 | No Comments
The Wall Street Journal reports that during the US Presidential election in October, the University of Nebraska rescinded an invitiation to William Ayers. This has started a debate in US circles about the nature of academic freedom. Mr Ayers, the controvesial co-founder of the Weather Underground and the man responsible for bombing a number of [...]
Posted by admin in Academic Freedom, News on 06. Oct, 2008 | No Comments
UK PhD student, Rizwaan Sabir was detained for six days by anti-terror investigators then released without charge. The reason: Rizwaan was researching Al-Qaida for his PhD thesis, and had downloaded a publicly available document known as “the Al-Qaida training manual” – a document available on the US Department of Justice website. Unfettered questioning and microscopic [...]
Posted by admin in Academic Freedom, Call for Papers, News on 18. Sep, 2008 | No Comments
The British Journal of Educational Studies has opened a call for papers for a special edition on academic freedom. The papers will be edited by Academics for Academic Freedom founder, Denis Hayes, and will be published in September 2009. Editor of the BJES, James Arthur has given Academic Freedom Watch permission to reproduce his editorial. [...]
