{"podcast":{"title":"Campus Talks by Times Higher Education","slug":"campus-talks-by-times-higher-education-441702","podcast_index_feed_id":441702,"rss_url":"https://feed.podbean.com/timeshighered/feed.xml","website_url":"https://timeshigheredcampus.podbean.com","image_url":"https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/578328/Campus-podcast.jpg","author":"Campus by Times Higher Education","episode_count":100,"summary":"Advice, insights and solutions addressing the biggest questions facing higher education, from academics, faculty and staff around the world. Campus Talks gets under the skin of the issues and individuals defining the future of teaching, research, internationalisation and sustainability in the academy.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-16T10:17:31.519542+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/campus-talks-by-times-higher-education-441702"},"episode":{"title":"News Talks: University of Sussex v the Office for Students – what could it mean for UK higher education?","slug":"news-talks-university-of-sussex-v-the-office-for-students-what-could-it-mean-for-uk-higher-education","published_at":"2026-02-06T00:01:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/campus-talks-by-times-higher-education-441702/news-talks-university-of-sussex-v-the-office-for-students-what-could-it-mean-for-uk-higher-education","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/campus-talks-by-times-higher-education-441702","url":"https://timeshighered.podbean.com/e/news-talks-the-university-of-sussex-versus-office-for-students-%e2%80%93-what-could-it-mean-for-uk-higher-education/","audio_url":"https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/v5zs2fuku7mech2e/001_News_talks_Sussex_vs_OfS_FINAL_EDIT9aras.mp3","summary":"We discuss why the University of Sussex has mounted a legal challenge against a £585,000 fine imposed by the Office for Students (OfS) for failing to uphold freedom of speech. The case, being heard in the high court in London this week, brings to the fore questions over academic freedom, institutional autonomy, trans rights and EDI policies and the role of the OfS. On this episode of News talks, Times Higher Education editor Chris Havergal talks to Miranda Prynne about the background to the case, the key points upon which Sussex is disputing the OfS findings and the broader implications for universities and the way they are regulated.","meta_description":"We discuss why the University of Sussex has mounted a legal challenge against a £585,000 fine imposed by the Office for Students (OfS) for failing to upho…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1380,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/campus-talks-by-times-higher-education-441702/episodes/news-talks-university-of-sussex-v-the-office-for-students-what-could-it-mean-for-uk-higher-education/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/campus-talks-by-times-higher-education-441702/news-talks-university-of-sussex-v-the-office-for-students-what-could-it-mean-for-uk-higher-education.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}