Well, as a foreign student, some of the things I do "support", but yet some I felt it's a little bit too much for me. ID Cards? Well, I came from a country that is compulsory for every citizen to have an ID card with them, just an easier approach to have a correct identification of the person, I had already "given" all my 10 fingerprints to the UK Home Office when I apply for student visa, which also includes my face, considered as Biometric.
In one of it's conditions, "Students on courses for longer than 12 months will have to show they have sufficient funds to pay their first year of fees, plus £9,600 to cover their first year in the UK. Students wishing to bring their dependants with them will need to show they have a further £535 per month for each person they bring.", what the kell?? International students studying science laboratory course already paying 4 times more than local students, without including the expenses on books, stationaries, food, lodging and traveling. Correct me if I'm wrong, Home Office still want to lurk around our bank accounts and make sure we have enough money, where is our personal lifes anymore? Do you simply tell the numbers in your bank account to your friends?
In another conditions, I'm not sure about it, just word of mouth and from the internet, Home Office requires international student to report to the nearest local reporting centre or something like that, to show that we are still here??? It's gives me a feeling that we are like criminals on police bail, that we will have to report to police station from time to time. So if we missed the reporting, we will face some actions maybe court hearing or sending us back to home country? Well, most office will be open from 9-5, we have lectures on Monday to Friday, so if we purposely miss the lectures and go to report to the centre, we will miss important stuffs, if we miss the reporting and go to lectures, we will expect some actions, can anyone get me a human-splitter?
We are also required to send an e-mail or whatever to the Home Office if we missed a lecture? Does going to the centre and report for prescence requires that? Our university lectures have the responsibilties to take attendance of the international student to the lectures, seminars, workshop or laboratories? As I recalled, attendance taking is only back in secondary schools, now they bring it to Universities?? Am I still a University student? OK, I don't miss any lectures, but is it neccesary? How about local students? I don't think all of them attend at least 95% of lectures? I had once seen some school students wearing their uniforms smoking in the local bus station at noon, I believe at that time they should be in class. I'm not bringing this problem to the local students, but I really felt unfair to the foreign students, what we want to come here is to get a degree, if attendance really to be taken, take them wholely and seriously.
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