Academic Freedom in Singapore and Around the World
In this episode, Alicja Polakiewicz from the Global Public Policy Institute in Berlin (gppi.net) discusses what the cancellation of a class at a University in Singapore tells us about the state of academic freedom.
You can read Alicja’s article on the case in Singapore here.
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This episode was recorded on November 1, 2019.
Photo by Ross Sneddon.
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