University chiefs to get security service Cobra briefing on hostile states [Video]
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University chiefs to get security service Cobra briefing on hostile states [Video]

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University leaders will be briefed by the security services after a Government review found their institutions were being “targeted” by hostile states, the Deputy Prime Minister has said.

The Government ordered a review of protections for higher education in its refreshed Integrated Review of foreign and security policy last year amid concerns that hostile states, and particularly China, were gaining undue influence over the sector.

Speaking on Thursday, Oliver Dowden said that review was now complete, and had found that universities were “vulnerable and are being targeted”.

Oliver Dowden is calling in university vice-chancellors to receive a Cobra briefing with our security services (Yui Mok/PA Wire)

He said: “As a first step, I will be calling in vice-chancellors to receive a Cobrabriefing with our security services to understand the extent of …

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