Some officials associated with Britain's graduate university programs expressed concern on Wednesday that the new vetting system would unfairly delay the arrival of foreign students.
"I think it will be a further pain for people trying to apply to a university. It's difficult enough as it already is," said Jean-Bapiste Laloe, a French research associate in the Department of Physics at Cambridge University.
"It's not useful to filter applicants with the fear that they will use their science or engineering degrees to carry out terrorist attacks," he said. "Day-to-day interactions in a lab such as mine are closely monitored in an open and friendly way. Anything suspicious would be noticed immediately."
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