Cambridge University is introducing an official sexual liaisons ‘register’ to record relationships between academics and students in a crackdown on harassment and misconduct.

The university will unveil a new policy that actively “discourages” affairs between staff and students. It will insist that academics who risk a conflict of interest will have to disclose relationships with students to the university. They then will be barred from teaching those students or marking their work.

The move comes in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal where actresses have claimed the Hollywood mogul had abused his position of power to sexually assault them.

In the last few days some former university students have used social media to claim they were sexually harassed by tutors back in the 1980’s and 1990’s. Their claims include allegations that some professors abused their positions of trust to behave seuxally inappropriately, sometimes during one-to-one tutorials.