The Cheese Grater has discovered that UCL will enforce mandatory attendance monitoring for all its departments later this week. The changes will come into force on the Monday after Reading Week.
The university has allocated £672,000 to spend on a system to ensure that this is possible, but it is unclear as of yet what the resulting infrastructure will look like.
UCL are fearful that they will face what London Met faced in 2012, when their Tier 4 visa license was re- voked by the Government for failing to monitor the attendance of their international students. The Arts & Humanities and Social & Historical Sciences faculties alone would lose £200 million a year if this happened to UCL.