Tag Archive for 'tier 4 policy guidance'

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Video Response to Threat of Student Visa Cuts

Tony Millns, chief executive of English UK, took part in a press conference with other sector bodies such as Universities UK, UKCISA, Study UK and the National Union of Students, regarding the government’s plans to review Tier 4 of the Points Based System and raise English language requirements.


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Cross-sector Initiatives Begin in Opposition to Student Visa Cuts

English UK and Study UK this week joined other leading international education groups opposed to the Government’s proposals on student visas in a national press conference.


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Directors of Top UK Universities Condemn Planned Student Visa Cuts

Directors of Top UK Universities Condemn Planned Student Visa Cuts

Universities UK who represent UK tertiary education institutions, says Britain’s place as 2nd in the global education market is at serious risk should the Coalition government make good its threat to slash student migrant numbers.


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Download the NUS Visa Consultation Response

The UK Border Agency consultation on student visas closed yesterday. NUS has been working to seek the views of member unions and international students on the proposals.


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Student Visa Clampdown to Protect British Graduates

The rights of student migrants to stay in the UK will be severely limited in order to protect jobs for British graduates, Damian Green said today.


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Tier 4 Student Visa Consultation Closes

Immigration Minister Damian Green has reiterated the Government’s plans to review student visas in a speech to the think tank Reform.


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Full Speech Given by Damian Green: Reforming the Immigration System – Part 2

Entitlement to work

I have other concerns and other proposals to tell you about. Because we not only need to be admitting the right students, we need to know that they are behaving properly when they are here.  For example let me turn to students’ entitlement to work and to sponsor their dependants to join them.


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Full Speech Given by Damian Green: Reforming the Immigration System – Part 1

Immigration minister Damian Green gave this speech to the Reform Think Thank on Tuesday 1 February.

‘Reforming the immigration system and reducing the level of immigration to a sustainable number is one of the big tasks of this Government.


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Damian Green to cite Number of Non-Highly Trusted Colleges as Sign of Abuse

Last year, 90,000 student visas were issued to non-EU migrants from education providers that were not highly trusted. UK Immigration Minister Damien Green is to use this to argue that the potential for abuse is “clearly enormous” in a speech in London later today.


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