U.K. education minister Nick Gibb announced the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ESC) is taking steps to impose “concrete” anti-discrimination rules, the International Business Times reports.
The move follows an unprecedented number of high-profile incidents, such as the “trigger warning” at Duke University, which was widely criticized for being politically insensitive.
It is expected to affect a wide range of sectors, including higher education, research, public relations and communications, according to the report.
It comes after a year of unprecedented public criticism of universities in the U