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Date Posted: 07:03:52 02/08/05 Tue
Author: jill garland
Subject: Complaints over student behaviour Holy Lands South Belfast

Complaints over student behaviour

BBC TV NI NEWS th Feb 2005
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/4246863.stm



Northern Ireland's two universities have received 270 complaints of anti-social behaviour by students in Belfast since September.
The complaints to Belfast's Queen's University and the University of Ulster relate to behaviour in the Holy Land.

Queen's Pro Vice-chancellor Gerry McCormick said 60 disciplinary cases are currently being dealt with.

"We introduced new disciplinary codes in November and in the next few months there will be consequences," he said.

Ann Monaghan, the University of Ulster's community relations manager, said just under half of the 270 complaints related to its students and disciplinary action had already been taken.

"Professor McCormick has to be complemented, in that he has moved very fast since picking up this portfolio in October with the introduction of the new code of discipline," she said.

"We are confident that from the University of Ulster's perspective and with co-operation of Queen's that we will be able to get a handle on our students at least."

Trouble

At the end of last year, it was announced by Queen's that there was a new disciplinary code for off-campus behaviour, which would be used against offending students.

It followed trouble between students and residents in the Holy Land area of the city.

Relationships between students and residents deteriorated after a street protest ended.

Hundreds of students in the Holy Land took to the streets to protest at a BBC Northern Ireland programme which highlighted tensions between residents and some students.


The students claimed they were being portrayed in the wrong light.

However, residents claimed hundreds of people were on the streets and that bottles had been broken and abuse was hurled at them.

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