Interim OfS chair announced as new free speech duties put on hold

The headline could have been ‘Starmer Government quickly caves in to UCU/UUK vested interests by abandoning the Free Speech legislation’. Still, leaving aside the FS legislation, happily the trend within ET judgments gives some hope that an academic hounded by a social media ‘pile on’ can now expect some protection from the employer - which will face a massive compensation bill if it feebly stands aside…

The OfS should be closed just adds to costs of Universities with no clear benefits. Just leads to more and more bureaucrats that seem to breed like rabits in UK universities, In other words, it is a cause of the financial crisis in Universities.