IRELAND
The Irish Times
March 19, 2019
By Carl O’Brien
Report ordered by Minister recommends ‘transparent and accountable’ protocols
All third-level colleges should be obliged to provide classes on sexual consent for students or risk losing State funding, a Government-commissioned report has recommended.
The report follows rising concern over the level of rape and sexual assault on college campuses.
Commissioned by Minister of State for Higher Education Mary Mitchell O’Connor, it outlines a series of steps which third-level colleges should be required to take to help create “safer and more respectful campuses”.
Among its proposals are that:
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