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Rehabilitation or Radicalisation?

Headline // 15.06.2010

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Rehabilitation or Radicalisation?

An interesting piece from the BBC today outlines how a young Muslim man who was sent to Pakistan for drug rehabilitation was recruited into the Taliban, taught to use an AK-47 and soon found himself undergoing extensive guerilla training.
In yet another revelation about the extremist threat to the UK, ‘Irfan’ (identity masked for safety) told [...]

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How do you solve a problem like funding cuts?

Headline // 14.06.2010

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How do you solve a problem like funding cuts?

There’s been a lot of talk recently about university funding cuts and the implications for students, jobs, and the future of higher education in the United Kingdom.  Cambridge University has begun employing a quasi-American model to fix this problem – donors… lots and lots of donors.
In 2005 (in an act of prescience, no doubt) Cambridge [...]

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Our first Parliamentary Candidate Research Report

Headline // 07.06.2010

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Our first Parliamentary Candidate Research Report

A new Student Rights report has revealed growing support for tough action against extremism and radicalisation in the UK, specifically on university campuses.
We surveyed 164 parliamentary candidates during the general election campaign period, revealing that over 90% of prospective parliamentarians are aware and greatly concerned about extremism in the UK.
Raheem Kassam, Director of Student Rights [...]

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Student website shut down over ‘unwelcome distraction’ claim

Headline // 01.06.2010

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Student website shut down over ‘unwelcome distraction’ claim

FitFinder, the popular social networking website for UK students, has been temporarily taken down due to pressure from universities over the perceived distraction to students, confirms the site’s creator and University College London student, Rich Martell.
Rich has been fined £300 by the University College London for ‘bringing the college into disrepute’ as his flirtacious website [...]

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