Plymouth shopkeepers blame shoplifting on foreign students
January 11, 2012 by Webmaster · Leave a Comment
A report by shop managers in Plymouth blames shoplifting on foreign students, making recommendations that their movement around the city centre be limited and that they should be made to carry ID cards at all times.
Source: Guardian
Thousands of foreign students reported over visas
September 29, 2011 by Webmaster · Leave a Comment
Academics are reporting more than 1,500 foreign students a month to immigration officials over suspicions about their UK visa status, figures show.
Source: BBC News
Student visa restrictions rushed
July 28, 2011 by Webmaster · Leave a Comment
MPs have accused the government of rushing plans to curb student visas. It has been estimated that the total cost of cutting student numbers could be £3.5bn and MPs have expressed concerns for the potential economic costs.
Source: BBC News
Visa allocation to overseas students cut
June 15, 2011 by Webmaster · Leave a Comment
According to the Home Office’s own figures, government cuts to the number of overseas students in the UK are going to cost the economy £2.4bn. The policy is part of a further crackdown on migration.
Source:Guardian
Foreign students allowed into UK to be slashed by a quarter
March 23, 2011 by Webmaster · Leave a Comment
Home Secretary Theresa May said the “radical” clampdown would close fake colleges and block entry for those who could not speak English well.
Student migration in the UK
March 16, 2011 by Webmaster · Leave a Comment
The report finds that student migration from outside the EEA will have to be cut by more than half to meet the government’s objective to reduce total net immigration ‘from the hundreds of thousands to the tens of thousands’ by the end of the current Parliament. The report concludes that cuts of the scale sought by the government will not be achieved by eradicating abuse of the student visa system or even stopping all student migration for courses below degree level. They believe there is a risk that proposed changes to the student visa regime will deliver substantial costs to the education sector and the wider economy to achieve the reduction in migration numbers.
Please follow this link to read the publication in full: http://www.ippr.org/publicationsandreports/publication.asp?id=802
Please follow these links to read the articles: http://www.ippr.org/articles/?id=4364 & http://www.ippr.org/Blogs/NickPearce/LetTheRightOneIn.aspx
Students’ support for asylum seekers
March 9, 2011 by Webmaster · Leave a Comment
ELEVEN students from the Chase in Malvern camped outside to raise awareness of the destitution faced by thousands of refused asylum seekers in the UK.
They were among 1,000 students across the country who slept out during the National Student Action Week, organised by Amnesty International and Student Action for Refugees.
They are calling on the government to allow people to work and support themselves if they have been waiting for more than six months for their cases to be concluded, or have been refused asylum but cannot be returned.
Source: Malvern Gazette
‘Profound concern’ over plans to bar foreign students
December 7, 2010 by Webmaster · Leave a Comment
A cross-party group of MPs have voiced their “profound concerns” about plans to cut the number of students from outside the EEA coming to the UK to study courses below degree level, affecting tens of thousands of students.
Source: Guardian
Plans to close the door on non-EU international students
December 7, 2010 by Webmaster · Leave a Comment
The immigration minister, Damian Green, today confirmed the government’s intention to bar tens of thousands of adult overseas students coming to study “below-degree-level” courses in Britain at all but “highly trusted” colleges.
He said that the 300,000-a-year student immigration programme was “a key focus of reform” because it accounted for two-thirds of migrants who enter Britain each year.
Source: Guardian
Twenty-one Oxbridge colleges take no black students in 2009
December 6, 2010 by Webmaster · Leave a Comment
Twenty-one Oxbridge colleges made no offers to black candidates for undergraduate courses in 2009, with one college, Merton not accepting a single black student in five years.
Source: Guardian
