“A university has been plunged into a row over academic freedom after suspending a lecturer who criticised its treatment of a student who researched al-Qaida. Rod Thornton, an expert in counter-insurgency at Nottingham University, was suspended on Wednesday after he accused the university of passing ‘erroneous evidence’ to police and attempting to discredit a student who downloaded an al-Qaida training manual from a US government website …” (more)
[Jeevan Vasagar, Guardian, 4 May]