Since universities nurture the thoughts and beliefs of people key to our future, this archive traces Prevent’s operation and impact in academia.
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CategoriesLatest News Prevent Duty in the ArtsIf you missed the screening of this must-see documentary, you can still see the full film witnessing the courage of people facing Prevent.
CategoriesLatest NewsBritish universities are ‘spying’ on student protestors, by ‘collaborating’ with police to monitor students amid a wave of pro-Palestine protests, according to an investigation by Liberty Investigates and Metro.co.uk.
CategoriesLatest NewsWhile Home Office Prevent data on referrals from further education (FE) are rare when the hundreds of thousands of students taught by colleges and training providers are considered, it does show that referrals are on the rise. Anviksha Patel investigates why.
CategoriesLatest Expert ViewsThe Office for Students’ proposals for an independent complaints process with regards to free speech exposes the deep contradiction between the government’s ostensible commitment to free speech and Prevent, writes Prof. John Holmwood for the Council for the Defence of British Universities.
The People’s Review of Prevent has released a briefing document to the higher education sector that is essential reading given recent events in the Middle East.
Here’s what students, staff and parents can expect this 2023-4 academic year after the Home Office accepted all of Shawcross’s recommendations.
CategoriesBooks Education ResourcesAs part of discussions about academic freedom in the UK, John Holmwood asks why the harms of the UK’s counter-extremism strategy Prevent have not featured in relation to concerns about academic freedom, and why’s it’s important they should.
CategoriesReports Education ResourcesEmerging from the ‘Re/presenting Islam on campus’ project, this 2020 report offered the first cross-sector examination of how Muslims on UK campuses are viewed and treated.
CategoriesNewsThe single biggest threat to free speech on university campuses is the government’s counterterrorism Prevent programme, a report has claimed. Written and published by the Higher Education Policy Institute (Hepi) the papers says that despite “strong rhetoric supporting free speech in universities”, the “current single biggest threat to free speech on UK campuses currently comes from the government’s own Prevent programme”. Read more
CategoriesNewsI write this having spoken at countless and the most prestigious universities across the UK, on topics such as the need to eradicate torture, to achieve accountability for violence by state and non-state actors in the name of the “war on terror,” and the dangers of the British government’s “Prevent” policy. I have frequently spoken about the need to end Prevent – not for the policy to have an “independent review,” but for its abolition. This is because CAGE has counselled hundreds of individuals and recorded their testimonies, and we are confident that Prevent is at its core about securitisation, mass surveillance and silencing dissent. Any policy that does this not only bodes ill for the rest of society – since it lays the groundwork for a startling system of control by the state – but it will not point us towards constructive solutions, let alone establish the trust that […]
