Tags: Students
NUS rejects motion on Iraqi/Kurdish solidarity citing ‘Islamophobia’
Posted: Wed, 15 Oct 2014
The National Union of Students' National Executive Committee has rejected a motion condemning the Islamic State and endorsing solidarity with the Kurds and Iraqi people after opponents branded it "Islamophobic". Read More »
University of Edinburgh students win “best secularist student activity” award
Posted: Tue, 11 Mar 2014
This year's AHS award for the best secularist student activity has been awarded to University of Edinburgh Humanist Society in recognition of their recent efforts to influence and change Edinburgh University Students Association policy. Read More »
Launch of student essay competition! Sharia: what’s going on?
Posted: Tue, 30 Apr 2013
One Law for All and the Lawyers' Secular Society (LSS) have announced a student research competition on the subject of sharia law, sponsored by the National Secular Society. Read More »
University & student union fail to publicly condemn preachers
Posted: Wed, 20 Mar 2013
The University of East London (UEL) blocked an Islamist meeting that was due to be held on the Stratford campus last Friday, 15 March. The meeting was billed as featuring hate preachers Khalid Yasin and Jalal Ibn Saeed. Read More »
Islamic group banned from UCL following gender segregation row
Posted: Tue, 12 Mar 2013
An organisation known as the Islamic Education and Research Academy (IERA) has been banned from holding any events on University College London premises after attempting to impose a policy of sexual segregation at one of its events. Read More »
Sexual segregation at a UCL event a scandal, say students
Posted: Mon, 11 Mar 2013
University College London has launched an investigation after an Islamic group hosted a debate on its premises with seating segregated by gender. Read More »
Secularist students kicked out of Freshers’ Fayre for offending Muslims with pineapple labelled Mohammed
Posted: Thu, 04 Oct 2012
Students from the University of Reading Atheist, Humanist, and Secularist Society (RAHS) were forced to leave the Freshers' Fayre this week after they labelled a pineapple "Mohammed" and put it on their stall. Read More »
NSS debates the role of bishops in Government at Durham Union Society
Posted: Fri, 08 Jun 2012
NSS President Terry Sanderson, and Executive Director Keith Porteous Wood, both argued the case that 'This House believes bishops have no place in Government' in a formal debate at Durham Union Society. Read More »
Student Secularist Award announced
Posted: Tue, 17 Apr 2012
The NSS launches the Student Secularist Award in collaboration with the AHS . Read More »
Islamist stops university debate with threats of violence
Posted: Tue, 17 Jan 2012
A talk on sharia and human rights by NSS Council Member Anne Marie Waters' at Queen Mary College, London was cancelled at the last moment because of an Islamist who made serious threats against everyone there. Read More »
Students defend freedom of expression at University College London
Posted: Thu, 12 Jan 2012
The Atheist Secular Humanist group at University College London (UCLASH) has been asked by the Students' Union to remove a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed (part of the Jesus and Mo series) from one of their events posted on Facebook. Read More »
