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Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 20:54:41 +0000
From: Alan Barnard <[log in to unmask]>
Reply-To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: New immigration rules for overseas students
To: [log in to unmask],
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Staff and students might want to sign this petition to the Primie
Minister. Anyone either a citizen of or resident in the UK may sign.
Just click on the link below, or copy it into your browser, and follow
the simple instructions.
http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/Overseasstudent/
*We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to withdraw the
oppressive new immigration rules on overseas students and staff.*
(More details on the website include:
"The new rules for overseas students and staff threaten university
autonomy and breach human rights legislation. These rules would
require Universities to report to the Border Agency any absences from
lectures and seminars or any failure to submit any assessment on time.
In other words the University is being asked to act as an Immigration
Officer to the students. These requirements go far beyond the present
monitoring of student progress systems in Universities which has as its
purpose assisting students to reach their full potential. It is hard
to justify such detailed monitoring of overseas students. Surely the
Border Agency just needs to know students have registered and are at
the University. This police-like surveillance is not the function of
universities and alters the educational relationship between students
and their teachers in a very harmful manner. University staff are
there to help the students develop intellectually and not to be a means
of sanctioning them. Trust between students and staff is essential to
the relationship. They represent a breach of Articles 8 and Article 3
of the European Convention on Human Rights and the Human Rights Act
1998 Ian Grigg-Spall." )
Best wishes,
Alan Barnard
----- End forwarded message -----
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