The UK government is to suspend all engagement with the National Union of Students (NUS) amid long-standing concerns about antisemitism in the body.
Universities minister Michelle Donelan has ordered the NUS to be removed from all the Department for Education (DfE) departmental groups and replaced with alternative student representation.
She has requested the DfE’s arm’s-length bodies, such as the Office for Students, to take similar action and said that the NUS would receive no government funding.
Last month the union announced that it was opening itself up to an independent investigation following a wave of complaints by Jewish students.
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