Student union leaders are set to be taken to visit Auschwitz to tackle anti-Semitism on campus, the Government has said.

Students from all 108 universities and university colleges in England are set to be taken to visit the former concentration camp to learn about the Holocaust as part of a Government-funded project.

The £144,000 programme has been announced amid concerns about high levels of anti-Semitism among university students.

Last month then-universities minister Jo Johnson said there were "unacceptable" levels of anti-Semitism among students.

Two sabbatical officers from each university will visit the former Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland in trips run by the Holocaust Educational Trust.

Student leaders will then take part in seminars which will teach them how to identify and tackle antisemitism at their own university.

The Government said the original 200 student leaders were expected to pass their experience on to another 7,500 students across the country as part of a programme of events.