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15 September 2014updated 26 Sep 2015 7:47am

One in four students experience unwanted sexual advances. What can we do about it?

Harassment is rife in UK universities – the passing the buck approach of “not on my campus” is no longer acceptable.

By Toni Pearce

Today the National Union of Students (NUS) published new research into lad culture and sexism on campus, revealing that one in four students experience unwanted sexual advances. That is shocking but unsurprising. These behaviours are associated with lad culture on campus, problems the NUS has been trying to tackle for over a year now.

We started in March 2013 with the publication of “That’s what she said: women students experiences of lad culture in higher education Realising the primary recommendation of that research in February this year we held a summit on lad culture.

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