New guidance threatens University CU’s

Written by Super User 05 Feb 2015
New guidance threatens University CU’s

From The Christian Institute: We have seen what the ‘British Values’ initiative has meant for school. Now it is to be applied to universities. New Government anti-extremism guidance means that universities must vet visiting speakers’ talks and Powerpoints for Christian Union meetings. The measures provide the ideal tool for authorities hostile to biblical beliefs to obstruct the operation of CU’s. The Government must withdraw this unjustified state intrusion into freedom of speech. The draft ‘Prevent’ duty guidance obliges universities to censor all external speakers, with requirements including 14 days minimum notice to the authorities and ‘advance notice of the content of the event and sight of any presentations, footage to be broadcast etc’. Quite apart from being a bureaucratic nightmare, past events indicate the level of hostility to CU’s on university campuses. The guidance stems from the Government’s desire to prevent ‘extremism’. Christian freedoms on campus are being put in real jeopardy.

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