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| September 17, 2012 | Minister asks UK Govt to not slash visas for foreign students to control immigration | | London: A British minister has asked the Govt to abandon its efforts to bring immigration under control by slashing student visas. According to the leaked letter, Higher Education Minister David Willetts told Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg that he wanted more students to come to the United Kingdom, despite admitting that the
number of students who stay here illegally after their courses end is not known.
In the letter to Clegg, Willetts made it clear that he wants ‘no limit’ on legitimate
students coming to Britain to study. Universities want to double the number of
foreign students, who pay larger tuition fees than Britons, to fund their expansion
plans. According to the Daily Mail, Willetts’s four-page letter demanded a ‘clear
commitment that the government will not seek to reduce legitimate student numbers
in order to meet the net migration target and will explore ways of presenting
net migration figures to make this apparent’. Willetts, dubbed ‘Two Brains’ for
his reputation as an intellectual, acknowledged ‘the difficulties of accurately
removing students from the net migration statistics, particularly as we still
lack robust data on the outflows of students from the country’. “However, I do
not believe we can justify keeping students in the net migration target on this
point alone, given the widespread concern that this could result in a reduction
in the number of legitimate students. We should be seeking to increase the numbers
of legitimate students coming to study,” he added. According to the report, he
wants ministers to make a public commitment that they have ‘no intention’ of ever
placing ‘a cap or limit’ on international student numbers. | |
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