Thursday, January 31, 2013

Warwick’s foreign staff may now see London without telling ‘Big Brother’

<p>A university has dropped "intrusive" plans to monitor the location of foreign staff via an email system after it was denounced by unions as "Big Brother" surveillance.</p><p>About 100 academics at the University of Warwick who hail from outside the European Union were ordered last month to record their whereabouts on a Microsoft Outlook electronic diary, which could then be shared with the UK Border Agency during any immigration check.</p><p>Staff on Tier 2 visas were asked in an email to "state your physical location on each day" to help the institution to comply with its highly trusted sponsor duties for non-EU staff and students.</p><p>However, the move was criticised as "draconian" by Warwick's University and College Union branch, which said that the "extremely intrusive monitoring" had led the university to "behave more like a police state than a liberal academy".</p><p><a href="http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=422529&c=1">Keep reading...</a></p>

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