Submitted by Aimee Woodhouse on Tuesday 5th November 2024
Published on Thursday 12th December 2024
Current status: Closed
Closed: Thursday 12th June 2025
Signatures: 21
Tagged with
2023 ~ Approved ~ Disapprove ~ Diversity ~ Education ~ Equal ~ Freedom ~ Freedom of Speech ~ freespeech ~ Higher Education ~ Law ~ Protecting ~ protection ~ Raise ~ Reviewed ~ society ~ The Law ~ Universities
Amend the law to allow universities to review the formation of student societies
We want the Government to review and amend the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023 and the Education (No.2) Act 1986.
We want an amendment that allows universities to review student societies, with an equal, diverse panel from each university able to approve/disapprove each society's formation.
We think the acts' free speech duties on universities, support the formation of student societies which have and can cause great distress among students. This could limit protection for students raising concern. Freedom of speech is crucial to education however some groups directly attack communities in higher education. People should feel safe on campus but we think the formation of some groups may generally incite hate.
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