Home Office reveals 11,000 fall in the number of overseas students since tougher measures introduced
By: Alan Travis, home affairs editor, The Guardian,
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| Immigration minister Damian Green says: ‘Widespread abuse of the student visa system has gone on for too long.’ |
The Universities UK action group has issued a warning about Britain’s reputation in education after new figures revealed that the government’s curb on overseas students had reduced their numbers by 11,000 and led to more than 450 colleges pulling out of the market.
The Home Office said more than 400 of the pre-degree colleges lost their right to recruit international students because they could not meet the standards of a new inspection regime.
Universities UK said cutting such courses was damaging Britain’s reputation for being “open for business” and undermining the pathway programmes operated by many universities.
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November 2nd, 2011
Tushar Mathur 
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