Published: 10.30am Tuesday 27 May, 2025
To the DUCU Committee,
I write in acknowledgement of your letter of Friday 23rd May.
We do not propose to respond in detail to a letter which makes so many inaccurate assertions about this University’s support of its international staff and students and is written in such an accusatory manner.
Our commitment to the welfare of our international staff and students is not and has never been in question.
Moreover, we do not see what constructive purpose you consider that such a letter will serve, at a time when non-UK staff and students are understandably concerned about the political environment in the UK and across the world.
We request that you inform yourselves about the extensive steps this University takes and has taken in support of its international staff and students.
We ask that you refrain from unwarranted and divisive rhetoric when it is important that our whole community continues to affirm its shared values of care and of civility.
Yours,
Professor Karen O’Brien
Vice-Chancellor and Warden
