The late-stage draft of England's campus speech bill is light on academic rights, leaving university governing bodies to define notions of intellectual autonomy and free expression on their campus, senior sector figures have argued. The House of Lords again tweaked the Westminster government's Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill on 21 March, with Conservative former universities minister Lord Willetts telling an event at King's College London that peers had added 'some constraints' to a controversial mechanism for suing universities and students' unions that limit speech, such as requiring all regulatory remedies to be tried first.

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