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NUS and SU against ID cards for students

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Warwick Boar

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Warwick Boar

By: Derek Hatley

From 2010 students will need an ID card for their student loan applications

Lecturers don’t want to become ‘immigration officers’

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The Courier

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The Courier

By: Rowan McCabe

From next year, universities will be expected to check whether overseas students are attending their courses.

Government’s ID Card Plan Provokes Backlash

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Student Impact

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Student Impact

By: Matthew Hartfield - Deputy News Editor

The National Union of Students is leading a campaign against the recent government plans to introduce identity (ID) cards to students, after the policy for launching ID cards was announced by the home secretary, Jacqui Smith.

Government ID cards for 2008/09 overseas freshers

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Felix

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Felix

By: Kadhim Shubber

2009: Home students encouraged to hold national ID cards too.

Students to be used as Guinea Pigs in new ID Card Plans

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Live!

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Live!

By: Kirsty Patterson

New plans to implement the highly controversial ID Card system in the UK have been announced, targeting students as some of the first people to join the scheme from 2010 onwards.

Identifying problems

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The government plans to introduce ID cards among students first, making them ‘guinea pigs’, according to some. Amy Fenton argues we should be concerned.

Students to be ID card ‘guinea pigs’

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Students will be ‘blackmailed’ into carrying ID cards, it has been claimed.