Making a good example
Though it may be bad luck for Sussex to have become the object lesson, winning back higher education for free speech has to start somewhere
Author: Helen Joyce
Though it may be bad luck for Sussex to have become the object lesson, winning back higher education for free speech has to start somewhere
Is there any more unbecoming way for an adult to respond to a telling-off than “it’s not fair”? That was the main reaction of the University of Sussex’s vice-chancellor, Sasha Roseneil, to the record fine of £585,000 levied on her institution by the Office for Students for failing to uphold freedom of speech and academic freedom. Sussex was just one university among many “navigating contested issues”, Roseneil said, but was “explicitly and deliberately being made an example to other universities...