by Emily Holt | May 12, 2023 4:14PM | Campaign - Universities
The University of Cambridge has come under fire from its Student Union in the past year after the increase in the number of recorded suicides at its colleges. Our Freedom of Information request has revealed the university recorded six deaths by suicide in 2022...
by Fern McErlane | May 12, 2023 4:13PM | Campaign - Universities, Uncategorized
An estimated 100 students die after taking their own lives every year, but as there is no legal statutory duty of care, grieving parents have no legal power to hold universities to account. Today marks the first step for campaigners seeking a new law to change this,...
by Declan O'Reilly | May 12, 2023 2:59PM | Campaign - Universities
Dr Mark Shanahan, a politics lecturer at the University of Reading, was in his office one morning when he heard a scream from the corridor. There was a knock on the door and a colleague entered, ashen-faced, followed by a police officer. The first thought that entered...
by Joao Santos | May 12, 2023 2:30PM | Campaign - Universities
Next month, the legal duty of care for university students will be debated in parliament after a campaign was launched in September of last year. The petition, which was brought by the #ForThe100 campaign group and received over 120,000 signatures, is aimed at...
by Yasmin Stretton | May 12, 2023 2:00PM | Campaign - Uni TOP STORY
Grieving parents are preparing to tell their stories to the nation’s MPs at a government committee next week in a fight to get a duty of care enshrined in law. The evidence will be given to the Petition Committee, a parliamentary group which will go over the...
by Faye Mayern | May 12, 2023 12:42PM | Campaign - Universities
“Why is nobody listening? Why is nobody understanding? Perhaps it’s too simple and so fundamental no one believes we’re asking for it.” These are the words of Bob Abrahart, the 67-year-old father of Natasha, a university student who tragically took her own life while...
