Hundreds of British students have to face expulsion Harvard University after a “frightening” and “vindictive” decision Donald Trump To Ban the institution from foreign recruitment.
the White House The university’s capacity to enroll international students on Thursday canceled In a major growth of Trump’s war in college,
Current foreign students, including hundreds of Britain, Will have to transfer to other colleges or lose your legal right to live in the US.
The move has triggered a fierce backlash on this side of the Atlantic and called for it. Kir Stamor And Britain’s ambassador to Washington Peter Mandelson, To tell President Trump that UK students were not made victims of their politics.
Former education secretary Nikki Morgan One of the senior politicians to slam this step, called it “chilling”.
Harvard, which has around 6,800 foreign students, more than a quarter of its student body, said the ban is illegal and quantity for vengeance.
Trump has been in conflict with the university for months, when it first avoids the demands of the White House claims that it was taken by ‘Vok’ ideas.
Announcing, the US Department’s Security Department accused Harvard of creating an unsafe environment in the campus by allowing “Anti-American, Pro-Terrorist agitators” to attack the Jewish students. It also claimed that the university was cooperating with the Chinese Communist Party.
Former Labor Secretary John Denham told innovation, universities and skills Independent The Prime Minister and Lord Mandelson should intervene.
He said: “This is going to be a painful experience for any student who is forced to leave the states and who thought they are going to go next year. It’s a terrible thing for the students and a terrible thing for a government”.
He said: “Our government is saying that you cannot go to treat such people. If people have complied with the rules … Just to force them to leave their country because you have a argument with a university that there is no way that we hope that we hope will be treated with our citizens.
“These are the youth between around 18 and 24, depending on whether they are undergraduates or a postgraduate degree. You cannot make individual youth the victims of their politics in that way. And I think the government should say that it is very clearly, with Trump, it is a really good relationship with the White House.
Former education minister Robin walker The ban on foreign students seems to be “a very reputation” decision, which will be harmful to play in the gallery than to play a power for American interests (and) and chase a serious policy “.
Former Business and Skill Secretary Vince Cable slammed the move as “absurd and dangerous” and said that it was another sly step to “punish Harvard to stand for him.”
The Foreign Office has been contacted for comments.