A spokesman for Dundee University said it had stringent measures to protect against discrimination

Scottish universities have been accused of anti-Jewish discrimination, with claims of students being punished for refusing to take exams on the Jewish Sabbath and being warned that admissions officers would “think twice” about accepting people with Jewish names again.

In a catalogue of evidence, the Scottish Council of Jewish Communities (SCJC) says there is a disturbing level of harassment against Jews studying and teaching in higher education in Scotland.

The claims, shared with a UK equalities and human rights commission inquiry into racial harassment, include a female medical student “hounded for taking off Jewish holidays and refusing to sit exams on Friday evening” — the Jewish Sabbath or Shabbat.

SCJC says she was “repeatedly summoned for dressing-downs from professors, the dean and the head of