13,500 fewer colleges for visas
12-05-2009, 19:27
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13,500 fewer colleges for visas
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/8046341.stm
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The approved list of colleges for sponsoring UK student visas has shrunk by more than 13,000, following a crackdown against bogus colleges.
There had been about 15,000 public and private educational institutions on the government's register.
But the new list, vetted by the UK Border Agency, now only has 1,500 institutions registered.
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the sharp fall in numbers will raise questions as to whether the previous official list included bogus institutions.
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13,000 of them? 
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12-05-2009, 19:28
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Re: 13,500 fewer colleges for visas
Shows how bad some things are in the UK when the list can go down by that amount.
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12-05-2009, 19:46
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Re: 13,500 fewer colleges for visas
I know of a lot which are glorified mail drops or a couple of offices above shops so it doesn't surprise me. Loads that have .com/.co.uk websites instead of the .ac.uk ones.
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12-05-2009, 19:51
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Re: 13,500 fewer colleges for visas
Our wrestling training 'school' (which is no more than a 1 night a week class) often gets emails from people in 3rd world countries wanting to "enrol" if we would be so kind as to send them an official invitation on letterheaded paper.
As soon as we tell them it's not an academically accredited class they mysteriously lose all interest.
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12-05-2009, 20:36
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Re: 13,500 fewer colleges for visas
It's been happening for years but sadly those of who complained about it in the past were normally branded a racist xenophobes hell bent on exaggerating the problem...
Anyway I like this quote:
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"We have made it clear that we will not tolerate either the fraudulent applicants trying to abuse Britain's immigration rules...
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IIRC the Home Office has employed a few dodgy illegal immigrants of its own and presided over the security industry employing a whole lot more.....
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21-07-2009, 09:43
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Re: 13,500 fewer colleges for visas
Now why isn't this a surprise:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/8159227.stm
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The MPs said they were "extremely disappointed" that the government had ignored repeated warnings from the education sector about the problem of bogus colleges....
....The committee found that around 2,200 colleges were not transferred to this new list, and it said it suspected a significant proportion of these were bogus.
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