Deported English test scandal victims still fighting for justice
Former international students who were forced to leave the UK in the wake of an English language test cheating crackdown share how the scandal destroyed their lives.
Former international students who were forced to leave the UK in the wake of an English language test cheating crackdown share how the scandal destroyed their lives.
Three international students who were accused of cheating in TOEIC English tests have had their names cleared of any wrongdoing.
The UK government is being urged to bring forward its graduate work visa route to include graduates finishing their studies in 2020.
The UK government has rejected proposals calling for a bespoke scheme to allow TOEIC scandal students to be able to ask for their cases to be reviewed.
The evidence used to accuse thousands of international students of cheating in the TOEIC test has been defined “confused, misleading, incomplete and unsafe” in the report summarising the inquiry of the APPG created to investigate the case.
“Some people may have been wrongly accused and in some cases, unfairly removed from the UK”: this is the verdict of the UK’s National Audit Office which has assessed the case of international students who were accused of cheating in TOIEC exams needed to gain the right to study in the country.
A documentary exposing the impact that the Home Office decision to revoke thousands of visas after the TOEIC cheating scandal in 2014 had on the life of the international students affected has been launched.
Campaigners supporting students in the legal battle to clear their names from the accusation of cheating on the TOEIC exam have expressed worry as two incidents, including an overnight detention, affected two of the students involved in the campaign last week.