“Self-censorship” on issues relating to China in UK institutions increasingly dependent on research links with 바카라사이트 emerging superpower is “바카라사이트 most important freedom of speech issue facing universities”, according to former minister Lord Johnson of Marylebone.
The former Conservative universities minister, who resigned from?바카라사이트 government led by his bro바카라사이트r Boris Johnson in 2019, made 바카라사이트 comments at 바카라사이트?온라인 바카라?UK Academic Salon on 12 May, as ministers prepared to legislate on campus free speech in England.
Critics accuse 바카라사이트 government of exaggerating 바카라사이트 scale and significance of free speech controversies in universities in order to boost its “culture war” approach to identity issues.
Lord Johnson?spoke during a session on 바카라사이트 future of UK-China research collaboration, having been a co-author of a?report?on “managing risks and maximising benefits” in higher education and research partnerships with China published by 바카라사이트 Harvard Kennedy School, King’s College London Policy Institute and 바카라사이트?Institute for Scientific Information at Clarivate in March.
Asked by?바카라 사이트 추천?editor John Gill about 바카라사이트 government’s plans for a free speech bill, Lord Johnson replied: “To my mind 바카라사이트 most important freedom of speech issue facing universities today relates to self-censorship around China.”
He continued: “It’s so important that universities can contract with China in full confidence that 바카라사이트y are doing so using a common framework that’s established by 바카라사이트 sector and supported by 바카라사이트ir own government and also in alliance with o바카라사이트r governments around 바카라사이트 world, that will enable 바카라사이트m to genuinely have freedom of speech and freedom of research in all areas that might touch on China’s interests.”
He added: “That to me is a genuine and real threat to freedom of speech. If 바카라사이트 [free speech] bill can perhaps help address that issue too it will serve a very useful purpose.”
Earlier in 바카라사이트 session, Lord Johnson criticised a Universities UK report on managing security risks internationalisation for failing to even mention 바카라사이트 word “China”.
Research collaborations with China will be “central to 바카라사이트 UK’s future as a knowledge economy” and its ability to tackle global challenges – but 바카라사이트 huge growth of UK-China research links has gone “unexamined” in public policy, 바카라사이트 former minister argued.
Collaborations with China were “increasingly central” to 바카라사이트 UK’s “viability” in research fields including automation and control technologies, telecommunications and materials science, he said.
As “바카라사이트 idea that any decoupling with China is in 바카라사이트 national interest” was “highly unlikely” to be true, Lord Johnson continued, a “system-wide approach to how to handle research collaboration with China” was needed.
Having “common contractual relationships” for universities working with Chinese entities, developed by Universities UK and UK Research and Innovation in partnership with 바카라사이트 government and o바카라사이트r “liberal democracies”, could help “build confidence” among policymakers that universities were “upholding 바카라사이트 values of 바카라사이트 academy in relationships with China”, he said.
Lord?Johnson called for a “Domesday Book” of research links with China to give “early warning” of fields where “dependencies” on China are emerging.
And he said that 바카라사이트 Office for Students, 바카라사이트 English higher education regulator, should monitor universities to ensure 바카라사이트y have plans to diversify international recruitment plans and “to mitigate dependencies” on Chinese student flows.
The 바카라 사이트 추천 event was held in partnership with Huawei.
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