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A FORMER Tory universities minister branded leaked plans to kick foreign students out of Britain after graduation “mean-spirited” yesterday.
David Willetts said the proposals would do “real damage” and risked deterring foreign students from countries such as India or China coming to learn in Britain at a time when the country should be trying to increase its share of the lucrative global market for higher-level education.
A Home Office source told the Sunday Times that Theresa May was pushing for a policy forcing non-EU students to leave the country and apply for a new visa if they wanted to return to be included in the next Tory manifesto.
The Defence Universities Alliance is a bit to co-opt higher education into the wider drive to war — we should resist as earlier generations of scientists did, argue say ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT of SCIENCE AND SOCIETY
CARLOS MARTINEZ responds to liberal hawk Simon Tisdall’s evidence-free China-bashing and asks whose agenda it really serves
The biggest strike in global history is a template for our future. The silence tells you all you need to know, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE