Exposure to opinions that students may find objectionable is “part of the process of education,” according to Arif Ahmed of the Office for Students (OfS), which oversees colleges.
It comes as the OfS released guidelines for English universities on how a new legislation that protects free speech will operate once it takes effect in August.
However, the new guidelines are “just more nonsense playing into the so-called ‘culture wars,'” according to the National Union of Students UK (NUS UK).
Amira Campbell, president of the NUS UK, stated that “students and academics overwhelmingly already believe that universities and students’ unions know how to do freedom of speech, and there is already plenty of legislature around the issue” .
“I am disappointed in the governing bodies ,”
