A National Union for Students (NUS) campaign to abolish the government’s anti-extremism programme has become a “vehicle” for Islamic extremist interests, according to a leading think tank.
A university Islamic society, which has been linked to “extremists” and Islamists, is campaigning to have CCTV cameras removed from Islamic prayer rooms on campus.
A Durham University student has won election to the National Union of Students (NUS) on a manifesto promising overthrow the Tory government via “violent revolution” and make “sweeping agrarian reform” Tom Harwood, 20, swept to victory with an outlandishly “ridiculous campaign”
Jewish Students have urged their union to cut all ties to the National Union of Students (NUS) over the anti-Semitism displayed by its President, Malia Bouattia.
A partygoer was banned from an on-campus University Halloween party because he wore a Grim Reaper costume involving dark face paints — apparently breaking strict safe space rules on Halloween costumes. Ryan Lytwyn, 22, a recent graduate of Edinburgh University,
Twenty-seven per cent of British students believe UKIP members should not be invited to speak on campuses, a practice also known as “no platforming”. A significant 76 per cent would also ban any speaker who had views that offended them, and 48 per cent want
Two thirds of university students don’t know when the referendum on Britain’s membership of the European Union (EU) is taking place, and up to 200,000 may miss out on a chance to vote, a survey has found. Almost two million
A senior National Union of Students official has defended the organisation’s Safe Space policy by insisting that “some people have more equal rights than others.” He has denied the Orwellian nature of the phrase claiming he meant only that some had
The president-elect of Britain’s National Union of Students (NUS) has refused to condemn violence committed by Palestinians, whilst repeatedly refusing to say Israel has a right to exist. Malia Bouattia, who claims to represent the UK’s 2.5 million students, denied all
Students at the University of Edinburgh have condemned a poster found on campus which claims that the Holocaust was a Jewish invention designed for financial gain. The University has opened an investigation into who placed the poster there. The poster
In Sheffield this week, the National Union of Students’ LGBT+ Campaign passed a motion which resolved to encourage university LGBT+ societies with a gay men’s representative to drop the role as as “gay men do not face oppression as gay
Britain’s National Union of Students (NUS) is perhaps more used to starting protests than being the subject of them, but yesterday their headquarters near London’s King’s Cross were the site of a rally called to “Revise Safe Space and No
A straight, biological man is a hot favourite in the race to become the National Union of Students’ (NUS) Women’s officer. Anna Lee describes himself as a “queer trans disabled lesbian woman”, and is currently the LGBT officer at Lancaster
Britain’s National Union of Students (NUS) is attempting to ban or “no platform” Nick Lowles, a man who has built a career denouncing perceived ‘Islamophobia’, because they say he is ‘Islamophobic’. Mr. Lowles is the leader of the hard left, foreign-funded Hope
The National Union of Students’ (NUS) LGBT officer has accused veteran gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell of being racist and ‘transphobic’ ahead of a debate where the pair were due to speak. Fran Cowling, a transgendered PhD student at Nottingham
The National Union of Students (NUS) held it’s first ever transgender conference yesterday, where they used ‘jazz hands’ instead of clapping, voted to ‘no-platform’ Germaine Greer and said they would campaign for “self definition [to] be the only criteria for
The student union at a London university has failed to pass a motion condemning the Islamic State terror attacks in Paris, just as they prepare to vote on a motion condemning the “symbolic imperial might” of Britain’s bombing of the
The National Union of Student (NUS) is to break its promises not to work with the Guantanamo Bay detainee and Jihadi-John sympathiser group ‘CAGE’, which called the ISIS terrorist a “beautiful young man”. Just days ago, the president of the
The National Union of Students (NUS) president, Megan Dunn, has become a board member of the “Stay In” campaign for Britain’s European Union referendum, without even consulting the NUS’s national executive committee (NEC), let alone the nation’s seven million students
The government will give a deadline to universities to draw up plans to counter campus radicalisation and gender segregation. The Prime Minister will also challenge the National Union of Students (NUS) on their continuing opposition to the government’s counter terrorism
A senior higher education official has urged all universities to establish compulsory ‘sexual consent workshops’ in order to teach students that “no means no”. Nicola Dandridge, Chief Executive of Universities UK – the university vice-chancellors advocacy organisation – called for the move,
It has been a busy week for the National Union of Students (NUS). Yesterday it received a scolding from the prime minister on national television. Now it has much bigger concerns: so-called Zionist soft drinks. Representatives voted Monday to “censor” and force
