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| Chinese 'students' use studies as cover |
| 2006-10-31 |
| Only a small proportion of the young Chinese nationals granted student visas for Belgium every year actually turn up at the universities. There is a tendency for them to melt into illegal work, often in Chinese restaurants. This year 125 Chinese students obtained a student visa after their acceptance at the University of Liège but, says the Dean, Bernard Rentier, "We only met about 20 of them." This practice is known to happen in other Belgian universities as well as throughout Europe. The Minister of Higher Education, Marie-Dominique Simonet, discovered a filtering system designed in Germany during her visit to China. Belgium plans on signing an agreement of cooperation with the DDAD, the German service running the filtering process, to reduce the entry of Chinese nationals to Belgium territory under false pretences. Up until now the Chinese authorities have simply checked the validity of the invitations extended Belgian universities but the Chinese government is considering verifying diplomas upon re-entry. |
| Posted by:lotp |
| #4 I worry a lot about the number of students from the PRC that have access to LBNL. While the research done there is supposedly unclassified, there's a lot of information that'd be easy to pick up and apply elsewhere. I also know for a fact that a NorK citizen once had access to the Joint Genome Institute in Walnut Creek as an employee - and that's where a lot of genetics work was and is being done (I'm not at all certain what the person's status was or is currently, but at the time NorK citizens were not allowed anywhere near a DOE facility - nor are they today - without special clearances). |
| Posted by: FOTSGreg 2006-10-31 23:32 |
| #3 Obviously you're not from the EU or you would know that Belgium is the center of the universe and the seat of all power. Or maybe it's a black hole from which Chinese students cannot escape. |
| Posted by: Darrell 2006-10-31 20:19 |
| #2 Who the hell travels to attend Belgian universities or colleges? I'm not the world's most ignorant backholler hick, and I can't even *name* a Belgian college or university without the aid of Google. (Actually, Wikipedia is a lot funnier. Check out the labored, very EUtopian description of the fission of Leuven University into separate Flemish and French institutions, complete with obtuse blather about "rational" division of the library archive, as if the equitable distribution of the stacks was the sole issue of importance in the linguistic partition of an allegedly ancient "Catholic" university.) |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2006-10-31 20:12 |
| #1 Well, Dean Rentier, exactly where would the primary obligation to correct this lie ? |
| Posted by: SpecOp35 2006-10-31 12:27 |