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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Richard Adams, Education editor

Higher education regulator to make freedom of speech priority next year

Graduates at the University of Westminster.
Graduates at the University of Westminster. Photograph: Alecsandra Raluca Drăgoi/The Guardian

The Office for Students will make freedom of speech and “off-limits” subjects on university campuses one of its top priorities for next year, despite the regulator receiving only around 60 complaints over the last four years.

Susan Lapworth, the OfS’s chief regulator, said students’ experience of higher education in England was “not just measured through statistics,” and could be affected by the attitudes towards issues such as freedom of speech at the institutions they attend.

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