"They need to speak to someone sympathetic," said Jane Harvey, a spokeswoman for the charity Network for Surviving Stalking (NSS).
We cap certain S-scores – extremely high NSS, expenditure and SSR figures – at three standard deviations.
Meanwhile, dissatisfaction with the National Student Survey (NSS) – the primary way in which undergraduates give feedback about their courses – is growing.
Just as high IQ scores tell us more about a person's ability to pass IQ tests than they do about their intelligence, so the high NSS results tell us more about the sector's ability to perform well in satisfaction surveys than the quality of what happens within universities.
At an open meeting, a senior manager long in tooth and claw, said: "Looking at the NSS results, I am ashamed to work at this place".
"Neither the employability nor NSS [student satisfaction] data sets are perfect - no data is - but universities do care a lot, and more so.
Stephen Evans, campaign director of the NSS, says the British anomaly was highlighted by a case that came to light last month of an English head teacher who had helped to turn around a "failing" Catholic primary school but faced dismissal because he was not himself Catholic.But in one part of the United Kingdom, an appeal to EU law will not be much use.
The National Secular Society (NSS), whose declared aim is to fight religious privilege in all forms, has said the case vindicates its long-running campaign to safeguard free speech from sloppy legislation that supposedly "protects" people from robust debate.
Consumption may be growing faster than the NSS suggests, but inequality has probably widened as well, which means that the poor are not benefiting from growth in full measure.
Mike Russell, a minister in Scotland's government, has said he is disappointed by the regulator's line; the NSS, meanwhile, has expressed bewilderment over the minister's Catholic-friendly stance, given that the regulator is merely applying the law.There is aggravation all round.
Although Britain has abolished its ancient ban on blasphemy, which punished insults to Christianity, the concept of "religious aggravation" amounts to a new form of blasphemy law which could be used to prevent criticism of any religion, says Keith Porteous Wood, executive director of the NSS.
