Sexual assault crisis across university students

There's a sexual harassment crisis ripping through British universities, with student-on-student attacks becoming the norm in many campuses. Reported sexual attacks in 2013 at both Newcastle University and the University of Liverpool were all internal. According to the National Union of Students’ Hidden Marks report, one in three female students at UK universities will experience sexual assault while studying Female university students have a 1 in 3 chance of being sexually assaulted More than 2,000 women were surveyed for the study in 2010 with one in seven saying they had suffered a serious physical or sexual assault while a student. Two-thirds of women had experienced incidents of sexual harassment, such as groping, flashing or unwanted sexual comments. But is the problem in u niversities getting better? Newcastle university has seen a reduction in reports of sexual attacks, in the year 2012 and 2013 there were 4 reported incidents wher...