Minority Students Project

They were both working-class girls from Southern California immigrant families.

One was of Vietnamese heritage, the other Mexican. One was reserved, the other vivacious.

Twenty people have been offered places to study at Bristol's University of the West of England in the six months since a new centre was set up to help asylum-seekers, migrants and refugees.

BY VIRGINIA BRIDGES, Correspondent
For Jack Zhang, Duke University budget cuts are hitting home.

Points based immigration system aimed at rooting out terrorists blamed for delaying visas for genuine students
Jessica Shepherd

he UK Border Agency's (UKBA) clamp down on international student visas is causing more mayhem than it is worth.

By Preeti Jha

Hundreds of destitute Indian students have finished another free lunch at a Sikh temple in Southall, west London. It's not the dream of England they were sold.

Source: The Scientist

Fighting for Representation

The Student Union Senator for racial minorities position has evolved over time by Miranda Neubauer

The Conservative Party have offered their backing to a disgraced association of student Conservatives from Oxford.

By Lucy Hodges and Richard Garner

Governors urged to quit after college falsely claimed for thousands of undergraduates

By Clare Kane

This term Oxford has welcomed the first Afghan woman to study at the University.

21-year-old Shaharzad Akbar is studying for a Master's in Development Studies after receiving the prestigious Weidenfeld Scholarship.

Amar Singh Amar Singh
06.11.09

Emma Thompson today attacked a university for failing to accept enough ethnic minority students - and said the BNP would like it there.

I raised issues about the failure rate of ethnic minority students at Sheffield University medical school in October 1997.

Gradually but effectively the Guild of University of Birmingham is putting in place permanent structures that will seek the welfare of it ethnic minority students.

By Chidanand Rajghatta

The number of students from India enrolled in US universities and colleges crossed 100,000 for the first time ever this year even as
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By Evan Beswick- The Journal

Source Jakarta Post

Sun, 11/15/2009 2:25 PM

Written by Alexander Ulrich of the Adam Smith Institute

By Linda Wu

Source KAL EL

A popular headmistress has resigned after parents objected to her replacing separate assemblies for Muslim pupils with a single gathering for all faiths.

Douglas MacLeod
Source Guardian.co..uk
Thursday 12 March 2009 17.33 GMT

NON-EU students studying at UK universities have almost doubled in numbers over the last decade, a new report shows.

Children born to black mothers are more likely to be expelled from school, suffer alcoholism and get in trouble with the police than their peers, according to controversial new government research pub

There is a lot of talk about leadership in our society, communities and organizations; everywhere you look there are commentaries on the subject.

A far-right activist linked to the murderer of the South African Communist party and ANC leader Chris Hani in 1993 is playing an influential role in the British National party in the run-up to next month's European election campaign.

Minority Students Project has launched it new network site after piloting trials for about a month.

Source: The Journal

EUSA following precedent in organising representation for disabled, LGBT and other minority student groups
Corinne Redfern