UAE cuts funding for citizens studying in UK universities over campus radicalization fears: report

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is removing backing for its citizens to survey successful the United Kingdom, citing concerns that they could beryllium radicalized abroad. 

The determination means the UAE has removed British universities from a database of precocious acquisition institutions that are eligible for authorities scholarships. It comes amid increasing tensions implicit London's determination not to designate the Muslim Brotherhood arsenic a violent organization, the Financial Times reported. 

"[The UAE] don’t privation their kids to beryllium radicalized connected campus," a idiosyncratic straight progressive with the determination told the outlet. 

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A "Welcome to the People's University for Palestine" banner astatine King's College astatine the University of Cambridge, May 11, 2024, successful Cambridge, U.K.  (Mark Kerrison/In Pictures via Getty Images)

Since then, Emirati students who person applied to their authorities for scholarships to survey successful the UK person been denied. 

The determination besides means that the UAE volition not admit qualifications from world institutions that are not connected its accredited list, rendering degrees from UK universities little than others, according to the report. 

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The skyline successful Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, wherever backing for its citizens to survey successful the United Kingdom has been halted.  (Vidhyaa Chandramohan/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

"All forms of extremism person perfectly nary spot successful our society, and we volition stamp them retired wherever they are found," Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s bureau said successful a statement. "We connection 1 of the champion acquisition systems successful the satellite and support stringent measures connected pupil payment and on-campus safety."

Starmer’s medication past twelvemonth said the substance was nether "close review."