Britain has denied admission to over 700 international students from taking courses in nuclear, biological and chemical warfare subjects amid fears they might use the knowledge to build weapons of mass destruction.
A total of 739 student applications, for a range science and engineering based courses, have been rejected to prevent extremists gaining access to the information and materials they need to develop nuclear and chemical weapons, as reported in the telegraph.
It is learnt that most of the International students who had applied to the UK Universities are from Islamic countries and a handful are from Indai.
According to the sources, 20,000 applications were made under the scheme by would-be foreign students last year. Last month, it launched a new website to make the scheme more accessible after fending off criticism by a House of Lords report which said the scheme was contributing to UK universities’ struggle to recruit international students.
The number of Western citizens who have gone to join the Islamic State militant group is now estimated to have reached 3,400. It has come to notice that a ceratin number of notorious foreign extremists are trying to gain entry to boast their skills in UK colleges and universities.
Rihab Taha, dubbed ‘Dr Germ’, who worked on Saddam Hussein’s biological weapons programme, studied for her PhD in plant toxins at East Anglia University’s School of Biological Sciences in Norwich between 1980 and 1984.