Sussex

在经历了前任领导层的一系列失误后，英格兰的高等教育监管机构必须在动荡的行业中重建信任。在 Office for Students 短暂且不顺的运作过程中，它面临了一系列挑战，但大多未能成功应对。本周，最新且最令人尴尬的一起事件揭晓：高等法院果断驳回了该监管机构试图因萨塞克斯大学在 Kathleen Stock 任职期间的监管失效而对其处以 50 多万英镑罚款的请求。Stock 于 2021 年离开萨塞克斯大学，称其因在性别认同和跨性别权利方面的观点而感到被排斥和针对。这曾是 OfS 面临的最具影响力的测试案例：一个极具争议且敏感的话题，涉及学术自由和言论自由的关键问题。但正如 Lieven 法官的裁决所揭示的那样，OfS 在急于介入时，反而弄巧成拙。阅读更多...

• 该裁决对 Office for Students 造成打击，此前该机构因萨塞克斯大学在处理针对一名教授跨性别权利观点的抗议活动中的表现而对其开出罚单。 • 在高等法院驳回关于该校违反言论自由条例（涉及前教授 Kathleen Stock）的指控后，萨塞克斯大学撤销了英格兰高等教育监管机构开出的 58.5 万英镑罚款。 • 此次裁决对 Office for Students 的信誉和管理造成了沉重打击，因为法院驳回了该监管机构针对萨塞克斯大学处理 Stock 教授跨性别权利观点引发的抗议及其随后在 2021 年辞职一事的长期调查。

Bereaved parents say review of nine deaths is too narrow and will urge health secretary to add 60 more casesAn inquiry into the preventable deaths of babies in Sussex will fail to learn the lessons as it “systematically” excluded dozens of families, Wes Streeting has been warned ahead of a meeting with bereaved parents.The health secretary has ordered a review of nine infant deaths at the University Hospitals Sussex NHS foundation trust amid maternity scandals across England. However, families are calling on Streeting to expand the investigation to include more than 60 babies who died between 2019 and 2023 and might have survived with better care. Continue reading...

Microglossum cyanobasis – or blue-based earthtongue – is only the second such specimen ever to be found in EuropeThe discovery of a rare, tongue-shaped fungus is being hailed as a sign of the crucial ecological value of England’s national nature reserves.Never before recorded in the UK, the blue-based earthtongue, also known as Microglossum cyanobasis, was found sprouting at the Kingley Vale national nature reserve in West Sussex. Continue reading...