The ‘Prevent duty’ which higher education providers are required to follow has been controversial, but the arguments used against it are largely based on myths and misunderstanding.
The Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015 (CTSA) has aroused great controversy by imposing a legal duty upon schools, universities, the NHS and other institutions to ‘have due regard to the need to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism’ (the ‘Prevent duty’). However, in an article published in the January 2018 issue of Public Law, we argue that the campaign against the Act and the duty in higher education rests largely upon myths, six of which are particularly prevalent. More...