Oxford and Exeter universities are at the top of a rape culture league table compiled from more than 1,000 testimonies from students.
The Everyone s Invited website, which publishes accounts of sexual abuse and harassment, released the data yesterday to highlight the problem on campuses.
It said rape culture is endemic at universities and praised the courage of young women who had come forward to share their stories.
The website released a list of 17 universities mentioned in more than five testimonies, almost all of which were in the elite Russell Group.
The Everyone s Invited website, which publishes accounts of sexual abuse and harassment, released the data yesterday to highlight the problem on campuses (stock image)
One student told ITV News how an assault hit her work, social life and mental health. But it took years for her university to take action against her abuser.
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Student wins payout and apology over ‘transphobic’ tweets
Student wins payout and apology over ‘transphobic’ tweets
13 Apr 2021
Richard North
Huddersfield University has been forced to apologise and pay compensation to one of its students after subjecting him to a prolonged disciplinary process for tweets critical of radical gender ideology.
The University launched a formal investigation into PhD student Jonathan Best, 50, after an anonymous complaint from another student.
The case comes after the Government announced a range of tough new measures to ensure that free speech is not restricted at universities.
‘Transphobic’
The complainant accused Best of engaging in “repeated transphobic behaviour” and “discrimination”.
Fans of the Bronte sisters have been left furious by plans to build a sprawling council estate over the wild and windswept moors that inspired Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre.
The rolling hills just outside Bradford, West Yorkshire, have been unchanged for centuries and have been protected Green Belt land under modern planning rules.
But now protesters are demanding a halt to the building of 150 houses on several fields around the village of Thornton.
They form the gateway to the Bronte Way, the rugged Yorkshire landscape where the Bronte sisters played as children and later used as motivational walks for their novels.