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On the #SussexFive and Celebrating our Victories
When the University of Sussex indefinitely suspended five students in 2013 for taking part in an occupation of its conference centre, the public backlash could not have been predicted. This week the Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education ruled that the university had been wrong, forcing it to compensate the students and formally apologise.