Lecturers defy government over ID cards
Anthea Lipsett writes in The Guardian:
Lecturers voted overwhelmingly to oppose and defy the government’s plans to introduce identity cards at the University and College annual congress in Manchester today.
The government plans to pilot the controversial identity cards with international students, which lecturers warned could deter them from choosing to study in the UK.
In January, the Tories accused the government of “blackmailing” students into holding identity cards in order to get student loans.
Dave Goode from Cambridge University, who proposed the motion that was passed, talked of the “horror and contempt” of identity cards and called on members to back the NO2ID campaign.
