It’s been proposed that new measures to strengthen free speech in universities is needed in that there have been recent attempts to censor speech and quell diverse or controversial opinions. There may be some features of the current cohort of social work students that lend themselves to a potential difficulty with free academic enquiry and debate. For example, recent research has shown social work graduates to be significantly less skilled at critical thinking and significantly less assertive than a UK normative sample (Sheppard et al, 2018).
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