Quotas students
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already available-in other words the largely Protestant areas, favoured by successive Loyalist governments in this sectarian statelet.
Small wonder that, to prop up a system which has nothing to offer the majority of the population other than misery and If DES 'quotas are limposed on overseas students at North East London Polytechnic 500 student places and 50 teaching posts, quite apart from clerical and manual jobs, could well be lost.
Under the 'quota' system the number of overseas students, designated 'specified students' to avoid the Race Relations Act, must be reduced to that of 1975-6.
In fact 'specified students include many who would previously have been considered 'home students' eligible for local education authority grants.
Now such students must be 'normally resident' in Britaininterpreted by most authorities as students who have lived here for three years for other than educațional purposes.
Labour councils
The only way these racialist policies, which Labour borough councils such as Newham have blithely implemented, can be reversed, is by direct action.
. Already a student union threat to stage an occupation has resulted in most of the regulations concerning fees payments to be withdrawn until the next governors' meeting.
They are threatening occupation again unless the rest of the regulations are withdrawn at that meeting.
Staff at NELP must support the students in the event of occupation and refuse to handle any applications until all discriminatory measures against I overseas students are withdrawn.