Asian-looking and Muslim students of all colours beware: the government is out to spy on you. Or so the Guardian newspaper said on October 16th, citing a leaked document it had obtained from the department for education. The newspaper claimed that the document was a draft of guidance for universities that advised them to inform on suspicious-looking students lest they drift into terror plots. The education department dubbed the story "inaccurate". But later that day Ruth Kelly, the communities secretary, defended "sensible monitoring" of campus capers. And the leak has reignited a debate about how universities ought to tackle extremism and how much of a problem it is.
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