de the Relations: Act before 1 September 1973 hoarding charges, isions."
march proved The Government's continuing blatant discrimination against overseas students appears to contravene the Appropriate instruments for autborisation of exemptions Act under Secbon 4i of the Race mical s plans will be made , by the with regard to further education awards, tuition lots sod the admission of overseas students. Until that date indirect discrimination does not apply to further education prov In these words, a joint circular from the Home Office, Welsh maLC Office, DHS and Department Crown' of Education, both exposer the Britain's drawn up.
hypocrisy of the Race Kelations all reveals the Govern under.its STOr removing an embarassing obstacle to is bla tantly racist attacks on overseas students. It seems that the Department of Education's discrim ination against overseas students trols, could make it babie to prosecu tion under the 1976 Act.
sophole is that such discriminaterins of the Act if it takes place in line with special arrangements • Minister of the Shirley Williams, Minister of the Crown' for Education, AIRS now issued a circular to college "special arrangements". In other words she has given the green Light to a new wave of attacks on students.
Within days of the circular being SALIAN the Inner London Education Authority has ordered colleges and Polytechna control to operate quotas to reduce the proportion of overseas students from 25 per cent to 10 per cent. I implement ed, such quotas will not only ac as back door Immigration con will also result course and college closures as the student population drops. Last year a wave of occupations won guarantees from college authoriles that no quotas would be operated. It is clear that th Government is shaping up fo further confrontation forms BES much as a whimper of disapproval from the college suchLast year's struggle did prevent the implementation of quotas in put the decisive question of fee levels the cartwas defeated. Students returning to college next term will face fee levels up to 300 per cent higher than last year. The studenes have already resulted in many having to give up their for that defeat lay with the NUS Executive, who refused to opstudents to exemplions for bardship cases — che outset rather than stepping on the toes of the "liberal" college to sop the quotas and other of discrimination next LET CAROL Be DECOGE SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 15 September 1977 Page 9 alliance with authorities implem- Rather. the den and must be for colleges anc local authoritice to refuse k ures. If the NUS Executive again refuses to co-ordinate activity nans to extend and co-ordinal action can be organised directly by the student unions prepared te LEnE the Coveransens policies, in conjunction with the lahour movement. In the mean Ume we can tid no instiratich whatsoever from the brave words of NUS Secretary Trevor Phil lips: We are going to lawyers to see what can be done about ir'.
NUS headquarters sbould be flooded with letters from student unions demanding a meeting of activists right at the beginning of next term to mag DUL
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Race Relations Act. REDMOND O'NEILL explains how the Department of Education has got around the terms of the Act on this issue — one which is certain to he explosive in the autumn when college students return.