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Monday, May 14, 2018

Home Office confirms asylum seekers can study

There is no study ban for asylum seekers! After STAR exposed errors, The Home Office have issued new guidance to confirm that asylum seekers should not be given Immigration Bail conditions which state ”you cannot study”. Watch our CEO Emma on Newsnight yesterday explaining what’s happened.

Posted by STAR team on 14/05/2018 at 02:56 PM

Thursday, April 26, 2018

Immigration Bail and the Right to Study

People seeking asylum and others are being denied the right to education by a new immigration status.

Posted by STAR team on 26/04/2018 at 02:30 PM

Wednesday, April 11, 2018

Let Asylum Seekers Learn!

STAR is horrified that some asylum seekers are being told they do not have permission to study and is working to address this as a matter of urgency.

Posted by STAR team on 11/04/2018 at 04:49 PM

Friday, March 16, 2018

MPs back STAR campaign to reunite refugee families in the UK!

Cheers and applause rang out in the House of Commons for refugees today (16th March 2018).

In rare scenes for a Friday – normally a quiet time in Parliament – the Refugee Family Reunion Bill was backed by MPs and now moves onto the next stage where it will be looked at in detail by a Committee.

STAR staff and students with Angus MacNeil MP

Posted by STAR team on 16/03/2018 at 03:55 PM

Friday, February 09, 2018

Let’s Work Together – to Reunite Refugee Families.

What if you could make a massive difference to the lives of refugees and their families – you’d do it right?

That’s what our amazing STAR activists are doing up and down the country for our annual week of action from 16th to 23rd of February.

This year the focus is the Families Together Campaign – as this suggests it’s all about reuniting refugee families.

Posted by STAR team on 09/02/2018 at 04:40 PM

Thursday, February 01, 2018

‘The opportunity to improve and thrive’ - for asylum seekers & refugees

So much is being done and there is so much more to do.

This seemed to be the takeaway from a special one day conference in London (31st January 2018) about improving access to higher education for asylum seekers and refuges.

Posted by STAR team on 01/02/2018 at 03:29 PM

Wednesday, January 24, 2018

Equal Access Conference - Bringing Down Barriers

For many students getting to university is enough to change their lives – even more so if you are an asylum seeker having fled your home country and sought protection in the UK.

Yet while refugees have the same status as everyone else living here, the position for asylum seekers and others is more complex.

Posted by STAR team on 24/01/2018 at 04:06 PM

Friday, January 05, 2018

‘Welcoming Refugees as Friends’

On New Year’s Day STAR had a star turn on national radio.

Woman’s Hour on BBC Radio 4 did a major feature on women who will be 18 years of age in 2018. They sought out interesting young women who are making their mark in society and asked STAR to help.

UWC Atlantic College in South Wales

Posted by STAR team on 05/01/2018 at 04:25 PM

Wednesday, December 20, 2017

‘One Foot In Front Of The Other’ – Raising Money For STAR

What is it that makes a middle aged man want to run a 100 kilometre ‘ultramarathon’?

Peter Ford – who’s 51 and in May will take on that challenge by running from London to Brighton – has a ready answer: a desire to help STAR “because of their work in supporting refugees settle in the UK.”