Last month, Oxford University set a benchmark by issuing this directive to make sure transgender students were not offended.
- National Education Policy: Government to announce committee in 10 days, says Javadekar
- #DemonetisationEffect: CBSE schools to go cashless from January
- UP Board Exams 2017: Cancelled, new date sheets to be released soon
- School principals to get report cards in Bhopal
- Cyclone Vardah likely to hit by 1:30 pm: Schools, colleges closed in four districts of Tamil Nadu
Oxford University recently directed its students to use gender neutral “Ze” instead of “he” or “she”.
One of the world’s leading educational institutions, Oxford outlined the new guidelines in a students’ union leaflet as part of a move to prevent transgender students being offended, The Sunday Timesreported.
More on the report:
- Deliberately using the wrong pronoun for a transgender person is already an offence under Oxford’s behaviour code
- In a move set to be imposed at Cambridge University too, students hope the use of gender neutral pronouns will also be extended to lectures and seminars
- “Gender neutral pronouns are good. It should happen in lectures, too,” said Franky Sissons, a transgender student at King’s College, University of Cambridge
- source”cnbc”