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UK sets new rules for foreign students

LONDON: The British government has introduced a new programme of security checks for foreign graduate students to prevent sensitive scientific information from being used in other countries to develop weapons of mass destruction.

The new programme, first reported on Wednesday by the journal Nature, requires students from outside the European Economic Area and Switzerland to complete an online questionnaire asking about their backgrounds and families.

The documents will be vetted by British security agencies before the students can apply for visas to enter the country.

The goal is to prevent sensitive information in fields such as nuclear physics and microbiology from being used for malicious purposes, such as the development of weapons of mass destruction.

14 November, 2007
 

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