Professor Arif Ahmed was speaking at the Universities UK annual conference in Manchester.
Professor Arif Ahmed said the UK had suffered a ‘significant decline’ in academic freedom over the last decade
The Government appointed Prof Ahmed, a philosophy lecturer at Cambridge University, to the post earlier this year to promote open debate. “Freedom of speech doesn’t work, it can’t work, unless it is and is seen to be not politically partisan. And that’s especially true of universities.Chairing a panel discussion at the conference, Professor Quintin McKellar, vice chancellor and chief executive of the University of Hertfordshire, said there had been a “vanishingly small” number of actual no-platforming issues within higher education.
And he cited the Academic Freedom Index, which claims to provide an overview of the state of academic freedom in 179 countries in 2022.
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