Motion
- Motion title
- Opposition to new Home Office regulations on international students
- Session
- 2008-2009
- Meeting link
- Annual Congress
- Meeting date
- 27 May 2009
- Status
- Passed
- Motion
- 33
- Motion text
We wish to express our opposition to the new Home Office regulations that require staff to monitor the attendance of international students. We are opposed to these regulations for the following reasons.
First, they represent a possible breach of Article 8 (right to privacy) and Article 3 (degrading treatment) of the ECHR and the 1998 Human Rights Act.
Second, such regulations will harm the relationship of trust between students and lecturers. The regulations treat international students as potential suspects who have come to the UK with the specific goal of abusing the immigration system.
Third, the work involved in monitoring international students will add unnecessarily to our workloads.
Congress agrees
1. To reaffirm its opposition to the new Home Office regulations
2. To ask members not to commence implementation of these regulations until the human rights and workload issues that arise from the new regulations are appropriately dealt with.
- Proposing body
- Goldsmiths, University of London
- Amended
- No
- Allocated to
- Strategy and finance committee (SFC)
- Notes
Administrative info
- Listing reference
- 2009/C/05-27/048/33