The government get tough on immigration.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8368709.stm
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The UK Border Agency had said it believed the total number of students was "roughly the same" as last year.
But a Freedom of Information request revealed the numbers entering from those countries, thought to be hotspots for bogus students, has tripled.
The then Home Secretary Jacqui Smith promised that the new system would "raise the bar" and lead to "fewer migrants coming to the UK from outside the EU"
Officers said a significant number of those arriving on student visas had previously been denied entry to the UK, and they suspected that many had come here to work and not study.
One Heathrow-based whistleblower told the Donal MacIntyre programme that many so-called students could not speak English, and knew nothing about the courses they claimed to be studying.
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Gotta love the government, they honestly couldn't be more incompetent if they tried, they just have the reverse midas touch and everything Gordon Brown wishes well ends up in flames or under 10 feet of water, sometimes both.