overlooked for promotion, or even sacked if they A subset of our freedom of expression, it is also protected expressed their views; in the Education and Training Act, where it is defined • A variety of different academic freedom incidents partly as the freedom to ‘state controversial and unpopular have occurred in recent years including speakers being opinions.’ New Zealand has a proud legacy of p. [...] This • Contrary to the idea that free speech has always been report reveals how serious the problem has become in this under threat at universities, the number of academic country by drawing on three types of evidence: freedom incidents seems to have risen sharply in 1) 72 anonymous testimonies from academics; recent years, in New Zealand as in the rest of the 2) 5 surveys of students and academic. [...] • Post-modernism, which sees speech as power and The report concludes with the following recommendations: emphasises the harm speech can cause, has a strong presence in New Zealand academia, especially the • There should be an annual audit of academic freedom Humanities and Education. [...] Born in Canada, he earned a BA in classics at Oxford and a Master’s in ancient history in London before moving to Stanford, where he earned another MA in political science and completed his PhD in classics in 2013. [...] Besides his academic publications on ancient and modern democracy, he has published pieces in The Dominion Post, The Spinoff, The New Zealand Herald, The Australian, The Spectator Australia, Quillette, Quadrant, Times Higher Education, Chronicle of Higher Education and other outlets.
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