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University attendance monitoring apps spark controversy amid surveillance and deportation fears

University attendance monitoring apps spark controversy amid surveillance and deportation fears

by Rei Takver | May 3, 2024 12:26PM | Campaigns - Immigration laws

Concerns are growing across UK university campuses that mobile phone apps used to record attendance could be used in surveillance and to potentially even wrongfully deport international students. Since Covid, universities have increasingly adopted mobile phone...
The true cost of the international student crisis revealed

The true cost of the international student crisis revealed

by Rei Takver | May 2, 2024 3:26PM | Campaigns - Immigration laws TOP STORY

The Home Office’s tightening of visa rules have plunged international students, universities and local businesses into financial uncertainty and anxiety. Many say the crisis has the potential to ruin young lives, destroy the international reputation of UK education,...
International students: Who are they and how often do they stay in the UK after graduating?

International students: Who are they and how often do they stay in the UK after graduating?

by Rei Takver | May 2, 2024 1:35PM | Campaigns - Immigration laws

Who comes from abroad to study in the UK? In the 2021/2022 academic year, House of Commons Library reported that there were 679,970 international students in the UK. According to the 2021 census, international students come in large numbers from China, India, Romania,...

Hillsborough Disaster 35th Anniversary: Silence to honour those who died in the crowd crush

by Rei Takver | Apr 15, 2024 4:15PM | Live News, Live News Summary

To mark the 35th anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster, mourners in Liverpool and Sheffield laid wreaths and stood in a minute’s silence to remember the dead. Sheffield Wednesday held a memorial service for the 97 people who died in the crowd crush during the...

Special forces and nuclear deterrent spending should be examined by MPs – report

by Rei Takver | Apr 15, 2024 3:44PM | Live News, Live News Summary

David Hughes, PA Political Editor Spending on the nuclear deterrent and the UK’s special forces should be scrutinised by a new committee of MPs, ministers have been told. The Commons’ existing spending watchdog, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), said a new panel...
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