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I'm really not kidding when I say these trans policies, apparently written by literal thought police, are still out there. Here are two more, from Aston University and Uni of Roehampton respectively. The university sector needs a clear out.

I feel nothing but sympathy for some of those who kept silent while the gender wars raged around them. I’ve had literally thousands of emails on this subject and some of the most desperate have been from people who risk their livelihoods and face persecution and harassment if

It seems *very* financially imprudent for any (English) University to remain affiliated with Stonewall. If you fail to act on their recommendations, there is no point in spending all that money. If you act on their recommendations, you make yourself liable for a huge fine.

🧵(1/5) The Office for Students (OfS) has fined University of Sussex £585,000 for breaches of regulations relating to Kathleen Stock's (Kathleen Stock) resignation in 2021. 4 policies were in violation of duties to protect academic freedom, but these policies exist at many other universities too

Advance HE has now written to university vice chancellors to acknowledge that certain policy statements cited in the OfS findings "originated, in part, from a template developed by the Equality Challenge Unit" and encouraging universities to remove this "legacy language" from

This is a long thread but worth reading. It's about Stonewall, EDI, KCL. Congrats to Alessandra Asteriti 𒊩 for persevering.

Arif Ahmed has written to all universities in England to warn them not to make the same mistakes as the University of Sussex. Student Academics For Academic Freedom Alumni for Free Speech London Universities' Council for Academic Freedom The Office for Students (OfS) Living Freedom The Free Speech Union Together timeshighereducation.com/news/ahmed-wri…

Letter to today's Times from over two dozen academics and free speech advocates, in support of the The Office for Students (OfS) decision to sanction Sussex University for failing to uphold free speech.

"One of the best ways for universities to detoxify their campuses is to stop taking sides. But do they really care enough?" W. Mackesy, AFFS co-founder. Article in Telegraph re letter sent to all universities by 7 key free speech groups & academics calling on vice-chancellors

Bridget Phillipson has today signed Commencement Regulations to bring into force, from 1 August 2025, the following provisions of the Freedom of Speech Act: Section 1: o The duty on Higher Education providers to take reasonably practicable steps to secure freedom of speech within the

From 1 August 2025 all higher education institutions in England will have a legal duty to PROMOTE freedom of speech. Take note Universities UK - The Office for Students (OfS) Student Academics For Academic Freedom The Free Speech Union Academy of Ideas Living Freedom Alumni for Free Speech London Universities' Council for Academic Freedom Together

(6/6) Whether the change from “equality” to “equity” puts universities in legal jeopardy is likely to depend on how they understand their obligation to promote “equity”. Academics For Academic Freedom Alumni for Free Speech Student Academics For Academic Freedom Read the full story here: afcomm.org.uk/2025/05/02/equ…

🚨The University of Dundee ignores the law and female student who wants her rights protected by her university An anonymous medical student at the University of Dundee has blown the whistle in response to the Dundee University Student’s Association’s appalling statement on the

AFFS published research on the 21 English/Welsh Russell Group unis to see if they seek evidence of EDI support in recruitment processes. 8 required candidates to provide evidence of their commitment to EDI. 11 (inc. 5 of the above) imposed duties on candidates to support or

This is a vital report from AFFS. As Joan Robinson observed, ideology is like breath: you never smell your own. Universities should not require ideological litmus tests from academic applicants. Such practices undermine academic freedom and must end.

"Oxford University ‘demands candidates back diversity policies’. Several institutions warned they could be breaching their legal obligation to free speech" Telegraph article on our report on EDI & uni recruitment policies. Academics For Academic Freedom Committee for Academic Freedom The Free Speech Union

Telegraph article covering the excellent Alumni for Free Speech report on the practice of requiring EDI commitments from academic job applicants at English universities. With a quote from yours truly. telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05/2…

An excellent report by Alumni for Free Speech, and sound remark by Abhishek Saha. Universities obsess over “decolonising” curricula but have no issue with being colonised by the insidious ideology of EDI. Viewpoint diversity, where art thou? Academia is not activism.

EDI requirements in recruitment challenged by free speech group "Universities asking candidates to prove support for equality policies may be unlawful, claims Alumni for Free Speech" timeshighereducation.com/news/edi-requi…