Student Handbook 2018-19

YOUR
SAFETY.
What is Harassment?
Harassment is unwanted conduct which
violates a person’s dignity or creates an
intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating
or offensive environment. Harassment
may arise from a series of events or an
isolated incident against one or more
individuals and is defined largely by the
impact of the behaviour on the recipient
not its intention.
Please report any concern about
bullying or harassment to your main
point of contact at the college or
another member of the course team.
If you feel that you can’t do this, there are
other staff in the college who could help.
Please see staff to contact at
the end of this section.
Bullying and Harassment
Bullying or harassment is behaviour
that hurts another individual.
There is no legal definition of bullying.
However, it’s usually defined
as behaviour that is:
⚫⚫repeated
⚫⚫intended to hurt someone either
physically or emotionally
⚫⚫often aimed at certain groups, for
example because of race, religion,
gender or sexual orientation
It takes many forms and can include:
⚫⚫physical assault
⚫⚫teasing
⚫⚫making threats
⚫⚫name calling
⚫⚫cyberbullying - bullying via mobile phone
or online (for example email, social
networks and instant messenger)
Harassment may be:
⚫⚫Physical - contact, assault or gestures,
intimidation, aggressive behaviour;
⚫⚫Verbal - unwelcome jokes, remarks,
suggestions and propositions,
malicious gossip, nicknames;
⚫⚫Non-verbal - offensive literature or
pictures, graffiti and computer imagery,
isolation or exclusion from social activities;
⚫⚫Bullying - offensive, abusive, intimidating
or insulting behaviour.
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