Leading academic 'baffled' by UK Student visa policy
Comments (0)
13:39 05/11/2014
A leading academic has criticised the UK government's tough and complicated international student visa requirements, saying that he is 'baffled' by the policy. Professor Andrew Hamilton is the Vice-...
London Mayor: London would fall like Sparta without immigration
16:47 17/06/2014
The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has said that London can only thrive if it continues to welcome immigrants but he has added that, once immigrants arrive, they must be strongly encouraged to...
New UK figures to show rise in immigration from EU
9:38 14/05/2014
The next set of official UK immigration statistics are likely to show an increase of more than 25% in the number of Romanians and Bulgarians living in the UK since the same time last year, according...
London Mayor: UK should grant immigration amnesty
17:55 02/05/2014
The maverick mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has called on the UK government to grant an immigration amnesty to all illegal immigrants who have been in the country for ten years. Mr Johnson said 'The...
UK immigration statistics underestimated total by 350,000 in a decade
19:25 11/04/2014
The UK's Office for National Statistics says that it underestimated the true extent of immigration from Eastern Europe between 2001 and 2011 by about 350,000. It says that the error occurred because...
Oxford academic blames 'Kafkaesque' student visa system on UK PM
19:49 26/02/2014
A leading British historian has denounced the UK's student visa regime as 'stupid, incoherent, short-sighted, cack-handed, intrusive and counter-productive'. Professor Timothy Garton Ash, Professor...
