Education and Skills written question – answered at on 6 June 2005.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will conduct an assessment of levels of anti-semitism in English universities.
Higher education institutions are autonomous bodies and are responsible for the management of their own affairs. Their governing bodies have a duty to ensure that non-discriminatory practices are followed, in accordance with current equality legislation. The universities' representative body, Universities UK, has asked the Equality Challenge Unit (sponsored by the HE Funding Councils, Universities UK, and the Standing Conference of Principals) to look at the issue of extremism and intolerance on campus with a view to updating guidance to universities. I welcome this. It would be for Universities UK to monitor levels of discrimination against all minority groups and to consider whether any assessments should be carried out across the sector.
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