New Office for Students set to receive powers to crack down on ‘safe spaces’ and bans on controversial speakers Universities will be told that they must uphold free speech and clamp down on student unions that “no platform” controversial speakers, the government is to announce.Jo Johnson, the universities minister, set out plans to challenge the culture of so-called safe spaces in universities, which could allow the newly created Office for Students (OfS) to fine, suspend or register universities that fail to protect freedom of speech on campuses. Continue reading…
Via: Ministers plan fines for universities which fail to uphold free speech
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