Security increased after rape

There are also plans to reintroduce a minibus to travel round the site

Emergency phones have been installed at the University of Warwick after a foreign student was raped on campus.

The phones, which link directly to security officers on campus, were installed to increase the safety of students following the attack in June this year.

It is believed to be the first scheme of its kind at a university in Britain.

Extra lighting and CCTV cameras have also been installed and trees cut back at the campus outside Coventry which has 19,000 students and 4,000 staff.

A spokesman for security at the university said: "We have reviewed our safety and identified certain footpaths on the campus that we have decided need extra measures.

"We are even making emergency phones viable which we have imported from the US.

The attack was a shock because everyone had got into a state of thinking that nothing nasty could happen here Welfare officer Francesca Miles

"It is about making staff and students feel safe."

Two types of phones directly linked to campus security officers are being installed - handsets on barriers to car parks and courtyards and a push-button type.

There are also plans to reintroduce a minibus to travel round the site to prevent students having to walk home from campus bars at night.

The 24-year-old victim, from Taiwan, was raped as she walked through the campus back to her accommodation block at about 2300 BST.

No arrests

She was dragged into bushes and beaten around the face before being raped in what West Midlands Police described as a vicious and brutal assault.

No arrests have been made in connection with the incident.

Welfare officer Francesca Miles said: "There was a serious assault on our campus and it has brought people's attention to their safety.

"It was a shock because everyone had got into a state of thinking that nothing nasty could happen here."