The crisis of free speech on campus

Feb 11, 2017 by Jill

by Tom Slater, spiked:

The Free Speech University Rankings (FSUR) is back. spiked’s groundbreaking analysis of campus censorship in the UK has published its third annual report, and it paints a grim picture. Our survey, ranking 115 UK universities using our traffic-light system, shows that 63.5 per cent of universities now actively censor speech, and 30.5 per cent stifle speech through excessive regulation. This marks a steady rise in censorship over the past three years. Now only six per cent of UK universities are truly free, open places. Read the 2017 results. And, if you want to join the campaign against campus censorship, contact the FSUR team today.

Traffic-light ranking system:

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