"Time is ripe for intellectual policies"

Professor George Williams writes on how the freedom of intellectual inquiry at universities will become a hot topic now that it has legislative backing for the first time (The Australian, September 21 2011). See summary below:

The opportunity is for universities to develop the best [intellectual freedom] policies they can," said George Williams, legal academic at the University of NSW.

He was commenting on the passage this month of amendments that require universities to have policies in favour of intellectual freedom.

The amended Higher Education Support Act includes in its aims a higher education sector that "promotes and protects free intellectual inquiry in learning, teaching and research.

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