THE LABOUR GUVERNMENI IS stepping up its attacks on overseas students as part of its racist policy of focussing attention on the non-white population, making them scapegoats for the failings of its policies. This involves a the road to expanding and further improving the That makes a grand total of £106.45. A very grand total, in fact.
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A/C to be debited wavee 15 05 70 sorting Code No First Payment Due notice to the contrary is received by you. systematic plan to make overseas students pay for the crisis in education as well as an attempt - in line with their general immigration policy — to restrict the entry of overseas students into the country to a minimum and to deport many of those already in the country.
Overseas students pay as a rule a great County deal more than indigenous students. Last year they paid an average annual fee of In May 19fE E320, this year the average fee recommended by the Department of Education and Science is 6416, and next year it will be GMC.:
Part of the rationale for these clearly exploitative fees is the myth that all overseas students are sons and daughters of sheikhs or rich ministers. What these absurd increases will eventually guarantee is that only these very people will be able to afford schooling. In relation to the sponsored students, these fees are merely a way of returning what foreign aid is supposedly given to the economically developing nations. It is called 'giving with one hand and taking twice as much with the other Teesside Polytechnic picketed a meeting of the Academic limits A further demonstranion, linking ine rigni agar nst discriminatory fees and the quota system to the struggle against racism controls present failings of society are tied up with the non-white population in the country.
In relation to overseas students, the Government's plans were stated clearly in a circular from the Home Office and the DES. Immigration officers will be empowered to test prospective students to determine whether they are academically capable of undertaking the course for tutionally do to remove him. All we could do was to ask ine Labour croup on tE Council to remove him Its panel of councillors for the elections *Jarvis did succeed in getting nominated, but when the sub-committee resp onsibie or crawing us names , brought his forward it was thrown out by the We asked Bore what the Birmingham Labour Party nas cone to moduse me local labour movement against racism *We are calling a conference on racial Ism, in conjunction witn warminonam Digbet Give Hall. It Will De a delegate November bouncil. walen aurackee immicration, vel Party, trade unions and the Co-op "We aim to get a common statement TOTTENHAM Weekly Herald Pickets protest the racist coverage of the Tottenham Weekly Herald last week. representation from those who became students subsequent to entering the country and who then apply to the Home Office for a change in their status.
The attraction of Britain to a large number of overseas students should be viewed in relation to Britain's history of imperialism. British imperialism plundered the land of the colonised, it disrupted and dislocated the native economies, it created conditions in which the inhabitants of these countries were and are entrapped in the web of social and Imperialism raped the resources of these countries and did not attempt to build the social facilities needed by these countries. What schools and hospitals were built were meant to cater for the colonists and the small layer of the native Subscribe lost oppose the resolution. Carter vote tor the tow resolution ana spoKe favour of it in a racialist manner.
Following this, a special meeting the Labour group endorsed a recomme dation that Carter be expelled by majority of 3 to 1.
Finally Albert Bore stressed the imp ortance of the 21 November demonstra We are organising coaches to go dow on ine sunday and my cur, selly war has printed its own special leallets t help build the contingent. We rare ais moute ransoon house terature o to its pathetic content.
"It's very important that 21 November real mass day action.' kly Herald population which was to play an inte mediary role between the coloniser (imp erialist) and the exploited native.
A large percentage of African student in this country are from Nigeria. Nigeria in 1963, three years after politic independence, only 25 per cent of childre or school age could attend primar school, and only 7.3 percent of thes went on to secondary school. The fact i that at independence British colonialisn left an education system with very fe all with poor senoois are colleges. almost non-existent facilities.
In the struggle against racism and th cuts in social expenditure th SavaLe plight of overseas students must be take up consistently and seriously. We call fc an end to all immigration restrictions and for non-discriminatory treatment o overseas students in fees and in all oth areas.
TUNDE ANTHONY.