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Row Over UK Visa Sponsorship

Thousands of foreign students face expulsion

Star Report
More than 2,000 non-European students, including many Bangladeshis, face deportation risk after the UK government revoked London Metropolitan University's right to sponsor visas of nonEuropean students.
Announcing the decision on Wednesday night, UK Border Agency said the university authorities had failed to address "serious systematic failings” identified six months ago, reports BBC Bangla on its
website.
It means that the university's foreign students will have to find a new university within 60 days or be deported to their respective countries.
News agency AFP adds: Amid alarm at the potential damage to the foreign student market in Britain — worth an estimated $22.2 billion— the government rushed to reassure foreign students that it was an isolated case.
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London Metropolitan University had its Highly Trusted Status -- which allowed it to sponsor visas for students from outside the EU — revoked by the UK Border Agency on Wednesday following asix-month audit.
The agency said the university had "failed to address serious and systemic failings".
Immigration Minister Damian Green said inspections had shown that students' English fell short of the necessary standards and that the university had failed to monitor if students were turning up for classes or not.
Other checks had shown that more than a quarter of the students at the university who were checked in a random sample lacked the necessary permission to remain in Britain.
But Green sought to reassure prospective students that "this will not be replicated across the university sector".
The move means current
overseas students have 60 days to enrol on a course elsewhere, with more than 2,000 facing deportation if they fail to find another university, according to the National Union of Students (NUS).
The union warned of "catastrophic" effects on Britain's industry for educating students from overseas — almost 300,000 non-EU students were enrolled in Britain in the 2010-11 academicyear.
The university's vice-chancellor Malcolm Gillies described the accusations against the institution as "not particularly cogent" and said it would challenge the government's decision.
Professor Eric Thomas, President of Universities UK, said a taskforce had been set to up to attempt to place the students affected with other universities.
"Our first priority is to support the international students affected by this action to ensure that, wher-
ever possible, they can stay in the UK and continue their studies, "he said.
Campaign groups claim that student visas have become the "back door" to Britain, especially for applicants from countries such as Pakistan and Bangladesh.
A small group of London Metropolitan University students held a protest outside Prime Minister David Cameron's Downing Street residence, some with tape over their mouths before police ordered them to move across the street.
The NUS labelled the crackdown on London Metropolitan University — which has 30,000 students in total — as political, linking it with promised immigration quotas brought in by Cameron's government.
London Metropolitan is among the top 20 British recruiters of international students, with 6,000 EU and non-EU overseas students in 2010-11, according to government figures.