UK may send back foreign graduates after course ends
Monday, 22/12/2014
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LONDON: The UK government has indicated new plans to send back foreign graduates, who come here on student visas, to their home countries at the end of their courses, a move that could affect the enrolment from India in British universities, media reports said on Sunday.
UK home secretary Theresa May is demanding that the Conservative party’s next manifesto in Britain to include a pledge forcing students from outside the European Union to leave the UK and apply for a fresh visa from abroad.
The new move could lead to the sharp dip in the number of Indian students coming to UK for higher studies, and they are set to be displaced as the Britain’s second-largest group of foreign students.
Presently, students largely from China and India can switch easily to a work visa and are able to work after their course ends.
Under the home secretary’s proposals, colleges and universities would be fined and stripped of the right to sponsor foreign students if they failed to ensure that students left the country.
