UK: New guidelines may force universities to end some overseas partnerships with autocratic countries, officials say
UK: New guidelines may force universities to end some overseas partnerships with autocratic countries, officials say
Freedom-of-speech guidelines pave the way for a new complaints system in England's universities.
Cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/10406685
The guidelines apply to all autocratic countries, but China is likely to be the principal concern.
Scholarships funded by foreign governments and partnerships that mean academic staff have to pass ideological tests may breach rules, according to the Office for Students (OfS).
It has launched a consultation on its guidance, which will come into effect in August.
Universities say they take their commitments to freedom of speech and academic freedom "extremely seriously".
From Chinese students in Germany, a technology promise to the motherland - (2014)
Illustrating the grip the Communist party and government try to maintain on overseas Chinese students, researchers and business people, an exchange of letters between President Xi Jinping and Chinese students in Germany has produced passionate promises from the students to serve the motherland - and deliver advanced technology backed to China, the state news media reported.
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To at least one Western intelligence official, the exchange was a textbook exercise in ensuring a steady flow of science and technology back to China from educational institutions and companies in the West.
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China is already way ahead of us in most areas though. They have their own space station, electric cars, etc. - if anything we should be hoping to import technology from them.
It's Europe that is becoming a backwater - especially with the never-ending overburdening regulation like the AI Act, DSA, and Cybersecurity Act killing startups and FOSS.
They're way ahead of us in many areas, such as suppressing their citizens, forced labour camps, nationalism, and bullying their neighbors.
Must be why they keep sending their kids to foreign schools.