Amber Rudd announces crackdown on overseas students and work visas (UK)

Guardian ^

[ameribbean expat]

Amber Rudd has announced major new restrictions on overseas students, including two-tier visa rules affecting poorer quality universities and courses, a crackdown on work visas and the introduction of a £140m “controlling migration fund”.

[Will88]

Oh, no, she’s proposing some of the same hateful, xenophobic and racist policies Donald Trump has proposed for the US.

[lodi90]

Good move. Much of the riff raff moving to Old Blighty is not from the EU. Leaving the EU won’t change that migration pattern.

[freedumb2003]

The University and College Union (UCU), which represents university staff, criticised Rudd’s proposals. Sally Hunt, its general secretary, said: “International students make an enormous contribution to UK higher education, both educationally and economically

The latter is all they care about. Foreign students pay full fare, not subsidized by the UK government *if they are at all like the US).

Biig Bucks.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

This does make a good laboratory for Donald Trump to learn from.

[ameribbean expat]

I think higher education is one of the biggest bubbles going in the US.

[lizma2]

My son is a student over there. He was no intention of staying once he’s done.

I told him he had to pick a grad school east of the Mississippi. I forgot to mention the “pond”.