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Britain’s oldest drama school installed Qr codes for students to report so-called ‘microaggressions’ by their teachers.

students at Lamda, a 160-year- old drama school in London, could access a ‘microaggression reporting form’ by using their smartphones to scan Qr codes across its campus.

Microaggressions are acts of subtle discrimination ranging from making racial assumptions by asking someone where they are from to using the wrong pronouns for someone who is transgender.

the form asked students to report the incidents ‘in as much detail as possible’ before suggesting what they ‘would like done in response’. Lamda also told the students they would log and track the reports to see whether ‘patterns are emerging’ in behaviour at the school.

Byrn Harris, legal counsel for the Free speech Union, described the tool as ‘totalitarian’. ‘it is overwhelmingly obvious to most people that surveillance not only will result in dull and unambitious teaching, but also carries deeply unpleasant reminiscences of totalitarian practice,’ he told the Daily telegraph.

Lamda said that the Qr codes were used as part of a trial and have since been taken down. the school, which counts Benedict Cumberbatch among alumni, plans to roll out an ‘updated approach’ for the 2022/23 academic year and has not confirmed whether the Qr codes will be included.