INDIAN students are to protest outside a London university campus in outrage over alleged racist remarks by a senior university tutor and claims they are deliberately being denied degrees en masse.

The Students Federation of India has accused the University of West Scotland of engaging in “ongoing discriminatory behaviour and partiality” against south Asian students at its London campus.

It has called for a demonstration outside the site on August 1, claiming the university appears to be delaying the resolution process to wait for the students’ visas to expire.

The socialist federation has warned it will stage an indefinite strike for the next academic year if the issues are not resolved.

Federation secretary Nikhil Mathew told the Morning Star that hundreds of post-graduate students across the September 2022 to January 2024 intakes have failed a module in the masters of business administration course at the campus “usually by one or two marks.”

Moreover they have reported “derogatory comments and biased treatment from certain members of the academic staff,” said a spokesman for the federation.

“Explicitly discriminatory comments, both within and outside the classroom, along the lines of ‘Indian students only come for visas, none of you are here to study’ have preceded a situation wherein hundreds of MBA students — all south Asian — have failed en masse a particular module and will thereby not graduate with a degree.”

Mr Mathew said: “Our main contention is that the person responsible for delivering and assessing the course is saying that we are not here to study, nor are smart enough to do so, yet is happy taking our money, which is outrageous.”

The federation said the “inadequate” university response has led “to significant distress among the affected student body.”

The university has been contacted for comment.