Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 9 October 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills
Current and Future Plans for Further and Higher Education: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
5:30 pm
Rónán Mullen (Independent) | Oireachtas source
I thank the Minister. The charter requires acceptance of principles that impinge on freedom of conscious and religion, for example. One test of academic freedom would be that should an individual refuse to comply with the compulsions entailed in the Athena Swan Ireland charter, that the person in question would not suffer disadvantage. Are individual academics free to reject the charter in their writings and in their academic actions in light of their academic views on the charter?
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