• pousserapiere@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    I have a hard time believing some university would spend money on regular badge readers on classroom doors, even more on setup and maintenance of passport scanners. Which university was it? What kind of id were UK citizens using?

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      4 hours ago

      Swansea university in Swansea Wales.

      Yep. Every classroom door had them.

      https://hwb.swansea.ac.uk/hwb/student-id-card/

      All Swansea University students are issued with a Student ID card, sometimes also called a library card.

      Your Student ID card allows you to: swipe in to record your attendance at lectures

      borrow items from the library

      use the library printing, copying and scanning services

      access certain study rooms and labs

      identify yourself at University exams

      obtain sports and student society memberships

      Also I don’t think these are too expensive. I’ve worked at a lot of places that had security badge swipes at the doors.

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        2 hours ago

        Thanks for the update. Wow, I’m impressed. For some reason I thought those were passport scanners or something. Still, digitally registering attendance feels quite fancy compared to my experience in more run down universities (not in the UK).

        Anyhow, it’s a bit of a shame that you had to pretend attending lectures for immigration purposes when you were already studying as a researcher