Campaigning ForThe100 ~ Higher education providers owe a duty of care to their students. It’s that simple. We want students safety to be a legal must. 💛
NEW on Wonkhe: Bob Abrahart examines how health and safety law assigns staff and students to different legal categories – and finds students left with the thinner end of the statutory bargain.
https://t.co/HU42VUFBoR
Ethan Browne took his own life, having been wrongly told he'd failed his degree
The QAA found that Glasgow University's assessment regulations posed a "systemic risk"
Rest in peace Ethan Brown
@Dying4aDegree@ForThe100_
https://t.co/BHDe99CL3k
Our lobbying work in #Westminster goes on.
Yesterday our CEO Ann Feloy & interim Deputy CEO Jess Estcourt met Liz Twist MP, Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Suicide and Self-Harm, with Doug Cave of @TheLearnNetwork and Jaquie Shanahan from the @ForThe100_ group.
Students mistreated by their University should contact their MPs
There is backbench debate on statutory duty of care on 13 January 2026
Leave MPs in no doubt as to the failure of universities to safeguard staff & students
@Dying4aDegree@ForThe100_
https://t.co/mJUD01RW5s
An investigation into behaviour of universities is unavoidable
MPs will now debate whether universities should be subject to statutory duty of care
Cue Vice Chancellors insisting that such protection is unneeded😉
@ForThe100_@Dying4aDegree
https://t.co/mJUD01StV0
NEW on Wonkhe: A decade after a brutal attack reshaped US campus law, Bob Abrahart examines what the debate over duties still gets wrong about universities’ legal responsibilities
https://t.co/X4qrCSoh1P
Cambridge’s £55k student payouts over 5 years reflect crisis of rising student complaints
After exhausting internal avenues, some students are forced to appeal to regulator or courts
Both financial & human cost is high
https://t.co/BSKC70xFPE
@Dying4aDegree@ForThe100_
@21percentgroup@ForThe100_@Dying4aDegree I find this student case unbelievably sad. It's the second time this has happened in the UK. Mared Foulkes also died as a result of receiving the wrong exam results information.
The family of a student who took his own life after a grading error has said the University of Glasgow “failed” their son and has raised “serious concerns” about the institution’s wellbeing support. https://t.co/nt6IwuG9pX
Student at Glasgow University took his own life after being wrongly told he had not earned geography degree
Three students die each week by suicide in UK universities
Rest in peace, Ethan Scott Brown
@ForThe100_@Dying4aDegree
https://t.co/BaRKa61uFd
Every single week, three university students in England and Wales die by suicide
Three families broken beyond repair
Rest in peace, Jordan Keyton, who died aged 23 in March 2025 in Cambridge
@ForThe100_@Dying4aDegree
https://t.co/emBy9qyrHl
🕯️ Weekly Reality
Every single week, on average, three university students die by suicide in England and Wales.
Three bright young lives lost.
Three families left shattered.
This is not just a statistic — it’s a crisis.
#EndStudentSuicides#DutyOfCare
New study shows stark gaps between student groups at risk of suicide
The new data from the ONS did not, however, look at why there were such discrepancies between demographics when it comes to student suicide, writes @OsoSabioUK
https://t.co/riBK5o9TWS