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Overseas students to be vetted

01 September 1994

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University vice-chancellors have agreed with the Education Ministry to security vet appointments from 15 countries on the grounds that they may be seeking to acquire knowledge to be used in the manufacture of nuclear weapons. The "advice" to be supplied by the Foreign Office will affect postgraduate and post- doctoral appointments. Nuclear physicist Peter Hodgson, a fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, said that the danger of profileration of weapons through overseas graduates was minuscule and probably non-existent: "Far more dangerous is the threat that a directive could hinder perfectly harmless pure academic research because of some illusory connection with weapons".

Times Higher Education Supplement 26.8.94.

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