The University of Edinburgh has put the rights of bigots above those of women
Genuine equality issues are taking a back seat to accommodating religious intolerance in student politics.
Genuine equality issues are taking a back seat to accommodating religious intolerance in student politics.
Segregation is an immoral concept designed to force one group of people into a separate, subordinate existence.
In a stunning victory for the campaign against gender segregation in British universities, Universities UK has now dropped its controversial guidelines which would have allowed visiting speakers to segregate students on the basis of their gender.
The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has ruled that segregation as proposed by the vice-chancellors’ body is “not permissible” under existing equality laws.
Labour shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna MP has spoken out strongly over the dicision by Universities UK to permit gender segregation on British university campuses.