Freedom to teach

First a comment on terms seems necessary. Some educationalists speak of the aims or purposes of a course, and of the objectives or course content and the methods by which the course is to be taught. Others prefer to keep to the normal dictionary meaning of objective as “goal”, “aim”, “purpose”. In this note I shall use aims to refer to the purposes of and targets of a course, and content and methods to refer to syllabus or course content and methods, to both teaching technique of the individual teacher and to timetable specification of overall class‐contact hours and of the division of these over lectures, tutorials, etc. In practice, difficulties over academic freedom are found in the areas of content and method.