Further Information and Training

In line with the Good Practice Guide for Scottish institutions the University is training a number of senior managers with student-facing responsibilities in the Prevent duty and broader issues around radicalisation and extremism.

This page summarises some key training and background information available to all other members of the University community on the Prevent duty.

• Prevent duty guidance: for higher education institutions in Scotland

The UK government’s guidance to Scottish Universities on implementing the Prevent duty

• Workshop to Raise Awareness of Prevent (WRAP)

JISC is delivering the government-approved WRAP course online and for free to HE and FE staff.  This workshop is an introduction to the Prevent strategy and an individual’s role in safeguarding vulnerable people.

Those looking for a deeper perspective on the Prevent duty and the wider issues, including alternative perspectives, may find the following useful.  The information is presented in alphabetical order:

• NUS Guidance for Students' Unions – Prevent Duty

The guidance published in 2016 by the National Union of Students (which is opposed to Prevent) for its members organisations.

• Prevent Strategy

The UK Home Office review and refresh of Prevent (2011).

• Radicals

A series of films made for the BBC by journalist Catrin Nye and director Ben Lister, looking at how the authorities deal with radicals.

• Safe Campus Communities 

A resource run by Universities UK to help universities, in the context of Prevent, “remain places where…free speech can prosper and safe campus communities can thrive.”  This includes a wide range of information, case studies and links to research on radicalisation.

• Spooked! How not to prevent violent extremism

A report published in 2009 by the Institute of Race Relations that suggested that the Prevent programme fostered division, mistrust and alienation.

• Understanding the impact of counter-terrorism measures on Muslim communities

A 2011 report by the Equality and Human Rights Commission.

• Understanding Islam, Challenging Islamophobia

An EU funded project run by the Reading International Solidarity Centre with the Centre for World Education in Nijmegen, Netherlands. Includes resources for anyone wishing to explore global citizenship, and tackle Islamophobia, in an educational setting.