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[–] pousserapiere@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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?

[–] daannii@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] pousserapiere@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days 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

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 1 points 4 days ago

I have a hard time believing some university would spend money on regular badge readers on classroom doors

Eh, my high school had this in the 90's