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“INCOMPETENT” Sussex University will be forced to fork out £10,000 to four student protesters in compensation for their “distressing” victimisation.
The Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education (OIA) ruled yesterday that the university had not “followed a fair procedure” when it suspended Michael Segalov, Lewis Nielsen, Hichem Maafi and Adriano Marotta.
The quartet was hauled over the coals in December 2013 after protests against privatisation and tuition fees.
Cuts are sweeping campuses as cash-strapped universities slash staff and politicians fail to act on a growing funding emergency. VINCE MILLS reports
Almost half of universities face deficits, merger mania is taking hold, and massive fee hikes that will lock out working-class students are on the horizon, write RUBEN BRETT, PAUL WHITEHOUSE and DAN GRACE