{"id":52381,"date":"2023-02-06T03:47:05","date_gmt":"2023-02-05T18:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/05\/afghan-refugee-in-london-told-to-give-up-doctorate-and-move-to-yorkshire"},"modified":"2023-02-06T03:47:05","modified_gmt":"2023-02-05T18:47:05","slug":"afghan-refugee-in-london-told-to-give-up-doctorate-and-move-to-yorkshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52381","title":{"rendered":"Afghan refugee in London told to give up doctorate and move to Yorkshire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>University asks home secretary to intervene in move that would deprive him of scholarship and teaching roles<\/p>\n<p>A Chevening academic will be forced to give up a doctorate, a scholarship and teaching roles under Home Office plans to uproot Afghan refugees from London and move them to hotel rooms in Yorkshire, a university has said.<\/p>\n<p>Suella Braverman, the home secretary, has been asked by a senior official at his university to intervene after Ahmad, a PhD student in engineering, and his young family were told to relocate 200 miles away to Wetherby near Leeds.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/05\/afghan-refugee-in-london-told-to-give-up-doctorate-and-move-to-yorkshire\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University asks home secretary to intervene in move that would deprive him of scholarship and teaching rolesA Chevening academic will be forced to give up a doctorate, a scholarship and teaching roles under Home Office plans to uproot Afghan refugees f&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3312,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,1440,717,4,494,1159,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-home-office","category-immigration-and-asylum","category-politics","category-refugees","category-suella-braverman","category-uk-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3312"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52381"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52408,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52381\/revisions\/52408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}