[Archport] Fwd: [BRITARCH] New immigration rules for overseas students -- petition

["Joana Valdez" <joanavaldez@gmail.com>]

 

 

 

Dear Colleagues,

Please consider signing this petition and please circulate it widely.

Yours,
Phiroze Vasunia



http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/Overseasstudent/


"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."

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