Universities Australia has welcomed a review into academic freedom and freedom of expression announced by education minister Dan Tehan on Friday. Professor Sally Walker will conduct the review with the assistance of universities, focusing on their progress against former Chief ...

Federal Education Minister Dan Tehan has unveiled the details of a university foreign interference taskforce announced during his address to the National Press Club in Canberra. “The information that our universities hold is of interest to foreign actors, and therefore ...

University of Queensland academics have voted against the proposed curriculum for the Ramsay Centre’s revised Western civilisation degree. The move by UQ’s Board of Studies of Humanities and Social Scientists (HASS) at a meeting on Monday followed an earlier vote ...

This week the National Tertiary Education Union called on Murdoch University to guarantee the jobs of three of its staff who spoke out during the Four Corners ‘Cash Cows’ episode on foreign fee-paying students. The call was prompted after Murdoch’s ...

A judge has ruled that James Cook University’s termination of Dr Peter Ridd’s employment was unlawful. The marine scientist was dismissed by JCU in May last year. In his view, it was because he “dared to fight the university and ...

Asian rankings darlings the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Nanyang Technological University are suffering internal tumult after 10 professors openly criticised them. An article published in Singaporean newspaper Today detailed how several high profile academics in non-STEM fields left ...

Professor Marguerite Johnson bristles at the issue of free speech on campus being termed a 'fight'. But that is indeed how Campus Review labelled it at its recent seminar, 'The Fight for Free Speech: What it Means for Universities'. Held on ...

A review into freedom of speech at Australian universities has been announced by the federal government, to be conducted by former High Court chief justice Robert French. The review is understood to have been prompted by a speech given by ...

Universities are the guardians of robust debate. However, questions about the roles and responsibilities of universities in providing a forum for open debate are repeatedly being raised. Are universities in Australia adequately equipped to protect free speech? Are existing university ...

The apparent battle for free speech being played out across our university campuses is difficult to navigate, with many competing viewpoints and intangible ideas at play. The so-called ‘chilling effect’ and other actions allegedly perpetrated by universities to stifle open ...