I agree with Alex Usher's perspective in this post. In a nutshell, he argues that the ranking of countries based on their academic freedom is basically a way of imposing a western perspective on the definition of what a university (or at least a 'good' university) should be. And surely, as he says, "one can argue for academic freedom whilst at the same time i) acknowledging that current academic norms in North America and Europe have never been universal and even in our own geographic contexts are barely a century old, and ii) avoid the insulting implication that over half the world lacks 'proper' universities."
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