(Reuters) - Immigration Minister Damian Green is calling for tougher rules for non-EU students seeking to enrol on courses in Britain, after research found a fifth were still in the country five years after being granted visas. In a major speech on immigration, which the coalition government has vowed to reduce, Green will say current foreign student numbers are "unsustainable."He is expected to outline plans for new measures that ensure only the "brightest and best" migrants enter the country to study and work.The stricter controls are part of a strategy to slash net migration figures which ballooned under Labour.
(Reuters) - Immigration Minister Damian Green is calling for tougher rules for non-EU students seeking to enrol on courses in Britain, after research found a fifth were still in the country five years after being granted visas.
In a major speech on immigration, which the coalition government has vowed to reduce, Green will say current foreign student numbers are "unsustainable."
He is expected to outline plans for new measures that ensure only the "brightest and best" migrants enter the country to study and work.
The stricter controls are part of a strategy to slash net migration figures which ballooned under Labour.
As for the 20% still here - how many are doing PhDs?
(On the other hand having met academics, there are a lot who apart from their specialist subject would be pushed mentally to tie their shoes) Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
According to police sources, he was an engineer pursuing a Ph.D. in computational fluid dynamics at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, in the UK, on the topic of "Computational Approach to Ink-jet Printing of Tactile Maps." He would have earned a bachelor of mechanical engineering from India, and an M.Phil. degree in aeronautical engineering from Queen's University Belfast.[10] He might have been in the UK as early as September 2003. He is believed to have organized a Chechnya Day Meeting in his native city of Bangalore, back in February 2006.[11] As an aeronautics engineer, Ahmed was able to secure employment, from December 2005, to August 2006, with Infotech, an Indian outsourcing company servicing clients such as Airbus and Boeing, before resigning abruptly.[12] It could be possible that he had access to sensitive design information about various aviation companies.[13]
According to police sources, he was an engineer pursuing a Ph.D. in computational fluid dynamics at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, in the UK, on the topic of "Computational Approach to Ink-jet Printing of Tactile Maps." He would have earned a bachelor of mechanical engineering from India, and an M.Phil. degree in aeronautical engineering from Queen's University Belfast.[10] He might have been in the UK as early as September 2003. He is believed to have organized a Chechnya Day Meeting in his native city of Bangalore, back in February 2006.[11]
As an aeronautics engineer, Ahmed was able to secure employment, from December 2005, to August 2006, with Infotech, an Indian outsourcing company servicing clients such as Airbus and Boeing, before resigning abruptly.[12] It could be possible that he had access to sensitive design information about various aviation companies.[13]
