Ruchika Tulshyan, News Editor
11th December 2007
Palestinian student Khaled al-Mudallal has been allowed to leave the Gaza Strip to return to his studies at Bradford University following huge international pressure. Al-Mudallal, who was voted LSE Students’ Union Honorary Vice President in Michaelmas term, was trapped in Gaza by Israeli occupation forces authorities for 6 months despite having a UK visa. He will complete his final year of study in Business and Management studies.
Palestinian student allowed to return to UK
LSE reluctant to spy on students despite Brown’s warning
Patrick Cullen
11th December 2007
The LSE is preparing a policy document dealing with the possibility of on-campus extremism. However, the School appears eager to tread lightly and protect freedom of expression at LSE, despite Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s recent plea to universities to examine their anti-extremism policies.
Oxford Union hosts Holocaust deniers
Rajan Patel, News Editor
Historian David Irving and BNP leader Nick Griffin, both prominent Holocaust deniers, were scheduled to speak at the Oxford Union last night amidst allegations that the Union was "promoting anti-Semitism".
More universities to sponsor academies
Simon Wang
University College London (UCL) recently became the fourteenth higher education institution to gain permission to sponsor an academy.
“Ideal student” faces deportation
Home Office denies visa to award winning Kenyan student on Brunel University PhD programme
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