The President was speaking at a conference organised by Scholars at Risk, Europe concerning academic freedom and intellectual dissent. Huawei works with a number of Irish third-level institutions, including Trinity College Dublin, Dublin City University, University of Limerick, University College Dublin and University College Cork. Price tagChina is at the forefront of academic research in many disciplines and the second-biggest economy in the world. One of the other speakers at the academic freedom conference, Sinéad O’Gorman, suggested university rankings should be tied to academic freedom. She pointed out that China’s universities are climbing rapidly in third-level rankings but are at the bottom of the academic freedom rankings.

Source: The Irish Times June 12, 2021 00:00 UTC