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THE NERDS’ TURN: BATTLING FOR A DEMOCRATIC ACADEMIA IN POLAND 

Mateusz Laszczkowski
Year of publication: 
2018
Book/ journal title: 
Allegra Laboratory

As students and academics in Poland are fighting to defend democracy and autonomy of the universities, this post is a battle cry. It outlines the threats to intellectual freedoms posed by the new law on higher education being introduced by the Polish government. It also describes the ongoing protests and sketches an analytic view of the situation.

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