`... a brilliant book, sparkling, hard, rock-like ... I greatly enjoyed it.' - Mary Warnock
`This book is an extraordinarily lucid account of what academic freedom means and of its importance for the academic world ... It could not be more topical.' - Lord Grimond
`... it is exemplary in its breadth of treatment of the rough-handed way in which the British government has dealt with British universities.' - Minerva
Introduction; Chapter 1 The Ideal of Academic Freedom; Chapter 2 The Limits of Academic Freedom; Chapter 3 Mapping the Borders; Chapter 4 Unit Costs; conclusion Conclusion; Chapter 6 Epilogue (April 1992);