{"id":154893,"date":"2020-08-03T01:01:25","date_gmt":"2020-08-02T23:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/08\/03\/uk-lecturers-strongly-support-colleagues-academic-freedom\/"},"modified":"2020-08-03T01:01:25","modified_gmt":"2020-08-02T23:01:25","slug":"uk-lecturers-strongly-support-colleagues-academic-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=154893","title":{"rendered":"UK lecturers &#039;strongly support colleagues&#039; academic freedom&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Policy Exchange thinktank urges government to impose free speech regulatorBritish university staff oppose efforts to sack colleagues who produce controversial research, according to a report on political diversity in higher education that claims to reveal \u201can important reservoir of support for academic freedom\u201d.The report by the right-leaning thinktank Policy Exchange urges the government to impose a new free speech regulator on British universities and students to guard against no-platforming and what the authors call \u201cpolitical discrimination\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/03\/uk-lecturers-strongly-support-colleagues-academic-freedom\" target=\"_blank\">UK lecturers &#039;strongly support colleagues&#039; academic freedom&#039;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Policy Exchange thinktank urges government to impose free speech regulatorBritish university staff oppose efforts to sack colleagues who produce controversial research, according to a report on political diversity in higher education that claims to reveal \u201can important reservoir of support for academic freedom\u201d.The report by the right-leaning thinktank Policy Exchange [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=154893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}