Five of the academics who were quoted in the recent Today article "Opaque policies, fixation with KPIs, rankings: Why arts and humanities academics quit NUS, NTU" have stood by their comments after the article was taken down.
Professors John DiMoia, Axel Gelfert, Linda Lim, Andrew Quitmeyer and Woo Jun Jie, who are all based overseas now, issued a public statement yesterday saying: "We believe that freedom of expression and active public debate are foundational to scholarly excellence and the advancement of human knowledge."
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