Relevant policies
Relevant policies
We are committed to maintaining the highest standards of integrity, transparency, and accountability. As such, we fully commit to adherence and will operate in accordance with the following policies linked below. These policies are designed to ensure a safe, secure, and user-friendly experience for all.
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If you have any worries about harassment or sexual misconduct, please check our Harassment and Sexual Misconduct Policy to see how you can get help and what steps you can take.
This is the key policy to refer to for incidents of harassment and sexual misconduct. Along with the Respect at Work and Study Policy statement, it sets out expectations of behaviour of our whole community of students, staff and volunteers and visitors, this is also supported by the Community Charter and Dyson Code.
You can also find out more about our approach to preventing harassment and sexual misconduct through training and awareness activities.
This policy refers out to other core harassment and sexual misconduct policies such as the Student Disciplinary policy, and shows how we set out to take prompt and appropriate action.
If you have any questions about this policy, please contact a member of the safeguarding team safeguarding@dysoninstitute.ac.uk
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This policy outlines our protective measures against abuse of power and conflict of interest related to personal and intimate relationships between staff and students.
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We're committed to ensuring a safe and supportive environment for all Institute staff, students and visitors. We recognise that there are circumstances in which young people and adults at risk may come onto Institute or Dyson Technology premises for Institute purposes or otherwise have contact with Institute staff, students, Dyson staff or contractors, such as engagement with any onsite recruitment or selection activities. This policy outlines our approach to support young people and adults at risk in these circumstances.
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This sets out our approach to safeguarding and promoting the highest standards of student welfare. It details our commitment to ensuring that all Dyson employees, partners, and contractors share responsibility for upholding these standards. This policy emphasises that safeguarding is a collective responsibility and everyone’s business.
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This policy explains the behaviours expected of students at work and during study.
Our community charter is created together by staff and students to help shape our shared living and learning environment. It outlines our collective commitment to values like inclusivity, partnership, safety, and respect.
As staff and students of the Dyson Institute of Engineering and Technology, we jointly commit to:
- Working together in partnership to build the best possible learning and working environment
- Promoting a safe, supportive and tolerant environment
- Always acting professionally, being courteous and respectful of each other’s time and effort
- Actively engaging in our learning, working and other development opportunities
- Giving and receiving feedback in a constructive way
- Maintaining and respecting our spaces
- Speaking up when things aren’t right or when we see opportunities for improvement
- Being proactively inclusive and working together to ensure that we are all able to feel comfortable being our authentic selves
- Striving to positively represent the Dyson Institute and uphold its values
- Being grateful and appreciating what we have.
Freedom of speech definitions and principles
The OfS explains that free ‘speech’ includes written materials and other forms of expression. It is not limited to the spoken word. Freedom of speech ‘within the law’ is protected. Unlawful speech is not protected.
There is no need to point to a specific legal basis for a particular speech. Rather, the starting point is that speech is permitted unless it is restricted by law. Free speech includes lawful speech that may be offensive and hurtful to some.
Speech that amounts to unlawful harassment or unlawful discrimination does not constitute free speech within the law and is not protected.
- Irrespective of the scope and extent of any other legal requirements that may apply to the Institute as an education provider, we have particular regard to, and place significant weight on, the importance of freedom of speech within the law, academic freedom and tolerance for controversial views in an educational context or environment, including in premises and situations where educational services, events and debates take place;
- As a provider we need to apply a rebuttable presumption to the effect that students being exposed to any of the following is unlikely to amount to harassment:
- the content of higher education course materials, including but not limited to books, videos, sound recordings, and pictures;
- statements made and views expressed by a person as part of teaching, research or discussions about any subject matter which is connected with the content of a higher education course.