Dear friends,
I would like to request your support for our protest against the structural exclusion of Iranian students and academics at two Dutch universities.
Universities used to be open, scientific forums where students and researchers were selected based on their academic qualities, not their nationality. University of Twente and Einhoven University of Technology have decided, in an unprecedented move, to reject all Iranian students and academics "as a results of the UN sanctions" against the Iranian government. This means that even students who are interested in subjects that have nothing to do with nuclear technology, such as social sciences and industrial design, are denied admission to the university.
Dear friends, this is the first time, since the Second World War, that a specific group of people is excluded from higher education. It is sad to observe that it should happen in a country that used to be praised for its liberal and progressive climate.
What needs to be done? We have already the support of a large number of academics at the Dutch universities. Also, we have lobbied so much that the Parliament will hold a session on this topic within the next few days. We can really stop this, by sending a strong message to the government and the universities that we do not accept discrimination against innocent students and researchers, just because that have "the wrong" nationality.
We need all the support that we can get. That is why I would like to ask you to read our petition here.
If you sign it, it would even be better! And please, spread this message in your network.
Many thanks
3 comments:
salam sam,khoshhalam az inke up kardi. entezar dashtam ke be comente posteghabli pasokh bedi ke man chizi nadidam, va in yek gelayas.
dar zemn masale estemare novine. vaghti bekhay keshvari ro motavaghef koni , bayad dar hameye arseha aghab negaheshdari. dar zemn shakhsan fek mikonam , behtarin arseha baraye tavaghofe yek keshvar arsehaye technologic nist balke arsehaye olom ejtemai va farhangiye .
nyx linked here, and here I am, and yes, I did sign the petition. And I send you good thoughts, my dear.
Good one!
Right after 911, a friend of mine who was in a PhD program in nuclear physics (somewhere in midwest) was suspended from school. SHE wasn't even travelling to Iran and had no ties to any university or institution in Iran either.
she was then allowed to go back to university and finish her PhD in a different field of physics!
I know of a Canadian professor, who was contacted by the RCMP (canada's FBI) because he was helping a student of his to set up a microbiology lab in Iran!
Yet, we have brave scholars who visit Iran all the time and write raving reviews of how wonderful the present and teh future of science and technology is in Iran!
Post a Comment