The universities between their internal and external enemies: II

Abstract

It was always unlikely that anything written by Professor Conrad Russell would be other than cogent, well-informed, powerfully argued and sensitive to intellectual, political and moral nuance. (His sometime tutor and an old friend is perhaps allowed to stress so obvious a fact.) Academic Freedom 1 is a powerful tract whose origins lie in a genuine fear for the freedoms of universities. This fear was occasioned by debate over the Education Bill of 1988. The particular debate seems now to have gone away, or at least abated; Russell thinks it "closed" (p. 105), a new set of issues having been posed by the passage of the Further and Higher Education Act of 1992.