Fate of porno answers unclear | BERNARD LANE | The Australian Higher Education | 19 March, 2014
A QUEENSLAND University has refused to say whether it has kept details of high profile public intellectuals who were asked to reveal their experiences of pornography.
Cleared but under a cloud, lecturer ignites freedom row | Hannah Fearn | Times Higher Education | 20 May 2010
Academic caused offence by showing a paper on bats’ sexual practices. A lecturer who has been ordered to undergo two years of “monitoring” after showing a female colleague a paper about oral sex among fruit bats has challenged the president of his university to a debate on the limits of academic freedom.
Rebecca Attwood, Times Higher Education
Proposal is key part of plan for European ‘Magna Charta’ on scholars’ rights. Academics would be given the right to appoint their own vice-chancellors under plans for a Europe-wide definition of academic freedom.
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=407578.
Melanie Newman, Times Higher Education
Academics are facing attempts to silence them during election periods to ensure that their research does not pollute the political process.
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=407323
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