AcademiaSG submission to the UN special rapporteur on the right to education
For her report to the Human Rights Council on academic freedom, the Special Rapporteur invited contributions from
Category: Editorials
How the Wong Government can show conviction in its vision, and confidence in itself and the people
As Singaporean academics, we have a professional as well as civic interest in spaces for public deliberation. We hope to see the state widening these spaces, and the people enlivening them for the public good. – From the Editors, AcademiaSG
Keeping academic freedom on the agenda
ACADEMIASG EDITORIAL — If there is no gap between stated policy and actual practice, we would expect university administrators, bureaucrats, and political leaders to be fully and enthusiastically forthcoming in responding to the points that academics have raised through our study.
FICA: Assurances to academics are welcome, but concerns remain
The Government has promised that FICA will not obstruct normal academic activity. Its statements do not allay such fears completely.
FICA’s threat to Singapore academia
ACADEMIASG EDITORIAL — The proposed law will complicate academic collaborations and deepen self-censorship while weakening universities’ resistance against malign interference.
Finding the words for richer conversations about race
There are many things scholars cannot do, but building vocabularies and frameworks is a core part of our work. Recent developments are good reminders that ideas are slow-moving things with unpredictable trajectories.
Making space for community
Academics are repeatedly encouraged to contribute to the scholarship and to make a wider social impact. Most of AcademiaSG’s efforts so far have focused on the latter, defending and growing the space for academics to play a more public role (see our year-end report card below). But interlocutors within the academy are important, too. The […]
Special Topics: a new series
Academics often bear bad tidings. Our critical analyses focus on the problematic. Yet we are often deeply idealistic about the potential for ameliorative change offered up by the systematic and sustained pursuit of knowledge. Knowledge can improve lives, enhance wellbeing and expand freedoms. The standard model requires those who want to learn to come to […]
Academia (and knowledge) in the age of pandemic
18 April 2020 FROM THE EDITORS It’s only April, but 2020 feels like a different universe from 2019. The locking down of the world’s population—unimaginable just months ago—has forged a shared reality and trauma. In this collective trauma, we seem to also witness a moment of heightened consciousness—that we have been living in great injustice, […]