Universities have a difficult balance to strike between protecting student speech rights and ensuring campus safety.
- Senior Lecturer in Political Theory and Philosophy, Queen's University Belfast
In new guidance, students and universities could be banned from censoring controversial speakers on campuses following the first ministerial intervention on free speech in 30 years.
Safe spaces are fundamentally at odds with the rigorous intellectual exchange central to the idea of a university.
Engaging with views we disagree with is a more effective way to serve the purposes of free speech.
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