Post by totheleft3 on Dec 6, 2022 5:39:07 GMT
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/12/05/universities-pay-attract-indian-students-bring-family-campaigns/
Not by the Government but by the university's.
Universities pay to attract Indian students with ‘bring your family’ campaigns
The 161,000 recruits attracted to UK last year includes 33,240 dependents - more than a quarter of all foreign studentsBy Charles Hymas, HOME AFFAIRS EDITOR and Samaan Lateef DELHI5 December 2022 • 9:00pmUniversities are paying education agents to recruit Indian students with “bring your family” offers.They are paying commission to agents who provide prospective Indian students with help in securing visas for their spouses and children.The agents are also marketing “graduate visas” where students stay and work in the UK for two years after completing their degrees, alongside help in securing part-time work during their studies. One agent even claimed a “full-time job” for a spouse could be “assured” as well as the two-year “stay”.The disclosures come amid concern in government at a near-trebling in the number of student dependents securing visas to come to the UK, from 44,000 to more than 116,000 in just a year.Ministers are considering curbs on the number of dependents allowed into the UK and restrictions on foreign students attending “low-quality” courses in an effort to reduce net migration, which hit a post-war record high of 504,000 in the year to June.
Number of Indian students overtakes Chinese
The 161,000 Indian students - including 33,240 dependents - who came to the UK last year have overtaken the Chinese as the biggest nationality on campus, accounting for more than a quarter of all foreign students.New Way Consultancy (NWC) says it works for more than 70 universities including Coventry, Ulster, Middlesex, Birkbeck, Westminster and Greenwich and is paid on commission for each student it recruits.
Im sure this would irate some posters on here
Im sure this would irate some posters on here