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(回答先: テロリストの研究および大学内にテロリストを探す（１）(Times) 投稿者 ひょうたん島の虻 日時 2006 年 10 月 23 日 12:19:18)
Anger over plans to spy on students
Matthew Taylor, Vikram Dodd and Will Woodward
Tuesday October 17, 2006
The Guardian
University bosses and lecturers reacted with anger and alarm last night over government plans to encourage academics to spy on their students. They said the measures, outlined in a leaked document obtained by the Guardian, were misplaced and likely to be counterproductive in the drive to root out extremist activity on university campuses.
According to the proposals drawn up by the Department for Education and Skills, ministers are to ask staff to spy on "Asian looking" or Muslim students, informing special branch of anyone they suspect of being involved in Islamic extremism.
Downing Street yesterday briefed that they wanted lecturers to promote pluralism, not to spy on students. But the document seen by the Guardian did not contain the phrase.
Ruth Kelly, the communities secretary, reiterated that academic staff were not being asked to "spy" but rather to monitor their students.
But Paul Mackney, the joint general secretary of the University and College Union, said: "We expressed concern that we were being sucked into a kind of Islamic McCarthyism which has major implications for academic freedom, civil liberties, and blurring of the boundaries between the illegal and the possibly undesirable," he said.
Last night the vice chancellors' umbrella group Universities UK said it had been involved in ongoing talks with ministers over their plans to tackle campus extremism. UUK President Drummond Bone said: "While this is clearly a draft document, there are dangers in targeting one particular group within our diverse communities of students and staff. Not only is this unreasonable but, crucially, it could be counterproductive. The key to this is balance and discussion - and we have made this point repeatedly to ministers."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1923954,00.html
以下は上記のTimesによる記事
Staff must 'identify' extremism
Claire Sanders
Published: 20 October 2006
State guidance asks academics to monitor student activity and 'ask for help'. Claire Sanders reports
Special Branch is to offer training to academics on how to "recognise and respond to potential violent extremism", the Government's latest draft guidance on Islamic extremism says.
The guidance, which has been seen by The Times Higher and updates versions published in the press earlier this week, says every university would have dedicated local Special Branch contacts who would be available to train staff.
The guidance is clear that Muslim extremists operate on campuses and that universities and their staff have a role to play in monitoring and reporting actual and potential extremist activity.
Bill Rammell, Higher Education Minister, refused to be drawn on the more recent guidance but he insisted that earlier reports claiming that the Government was asking academics to spy on students were "wide of the mark".
He said: "They bear no relation to anything that I or other ministers have authorised."
But the latest guidance says: "It is important for the police (and wider community) to have confidence that a local university can recognise if it has a problem and ask for help. To assess this capability it may be useful for HEIs to consider the following questions:
"Can staff identify extremist behaviour or radicalisation?
"Do they have the confidence to report it within the university?
"Does your university have the processes in place, and the willingness, to get that information to the police?"
Drummond Bone, president of Universities UK, said: "There are dangers in targeting one particular group within our diverse communities of students and staff. Not only is this unreasonable but it could be counterproductive."
Nicola Dandridge, chief executive of the Equality Challenge Unit, said that guidance that recommends discriminatory treatment "has no place in campus life".
Paul Mackney, joint general secretary of the University and College Union, said that the guidance risked blurring the line between radicalisation and terrorism.
"The state cannot expect academics to monitor what Muslims say in seminars or download in libraries," he said.
Gemma Tumelty, president of the National Union of Students, welcomed recommendations for an open dialogue between Islamic and other student societies.
But she said: "Treating any one section of the student community with such mistrust alienates and stigmatises the community and may damage the free flow of dialogue between that community and others. "
The guidance did garner some support.
Anthony Glees, director of Brunel University's Centre for Intelligence and Security and author of When Students Turn to Terror, said: "Universities have had to be dragged, kicking and screaming, to act on this. There are far too many opportunities for extremists to act on campus."
http://www.thes.co.uk/current_edition/story.aspx?story_id=2033298
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