The UK government is to extend pre-entry tuberculosis (TB) screening to an additional 67 countries identified as having 'high incidence' of the disease by the World Health Organisation. Some of these countries, such as China, Korea, Nigeria and Kazakhstan, represent important student source countries.
Business and English school the London Institute of Technology and English (LITE), UK, has been restructured, after government curbs to student visa issuance pushed it towards insolvency. Both the school’s Notting Hill English language branch and Bayswater business school have shut. The English language arm has been taken over...
Stricter immigration rules for foreign students and new UKBA rules have caused the number of businesses going bust in the education sector to soar by 44%, according to research from a British accountancy firm. 169 educational institutions became insolvent in 2011, up from 117 in 2010. Corporate insolvencies as a whole rose by just 3% in the same period.
UKBA has been criticised for ushering in the new Tier 4 visa system before it had gained complete control of sponsors (education institutions). The National Audit Office (NAO) suggested up to 50,000 students might have been actually seeking access to the jobs market in Tier 4's first year of operation.
Turkey, Jordan and Georgia are the latest countries to join a new system in which all UK visa applications must be paid for online and in dollars. The countries will join the system from January 30. From next month, appointment booking for biometric checking also becomes automated online.
English UK has been successful in forcing a backtrack over the story of banned colleges which was distributed by the media last year after a briefing by the UK Border Authority. UKBA has laid the blame at the media, insisting two lists of colleges were distributed to press.
In an effort to restore their reputations – sullied by their own government – English...
As many as 650 international students are waiting to find out whether they will be replaced at other colleges, after a business school offering degrees accredited by the University of Wales closed..
