Times Higher Education Supplement: Staff are silenced by fear of reprisals
Poll shows lecturers are alarmed at growing threats to their academic freedom, reports Jessica Shepherd
Four in ten academics say their freedom to express controversial or unpopular opinions is under attack, according to a poll carried out by ICM for The Times Higher.
The survey exposes the extent to which university staff fear academic freedom is being eroded. Some 39 per cent of 502 respondents said their right to question received wisdom – enshrined in the Education Reform Act 1988 – was in jeopardy. Some 38 per cent of professors, 45 per cent of senior lecturers and 36 per cent of lecturers said that their academic freedom was under attack.
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