Selective Admission: Making Migration Work for Britain
The Home Office has now launched its consultation: 'Selective
Admission: Making Migration Work for Britain'. Please click on this link below for full details:
www.ind.homeoffice.gov.uk/ind/en/home/laws___policy/consultation_documents/current_consultations.html
It's a 16 week consultation. The Government will then announce their proposals for change and a timetable for implementation in Spring 2006.
The links take you to the consulation document and the consultation questionnaire. The questionnaire is about 20 pages long and contains 38 questions, but no doubt there'll be many questions that aren't that relevant to the education sector.
The Consultation clearly states the benefits international students bring to the UK and covers all aspects of the proposed new points based system. A system the NUS International Students Campaign sees as discriminatory.
There is also a section that proposes to ask international students to provide "bonds" as a requirement for visa issuance. This we believe is an adverse effect on international students.
On International students it highlights, very but proposes a new 'certificate of sponsorship' system in which leave to enter and leave to remain would be issued for and linked to a particular course at a particular institution.
The NUS International Students Campaign will be looking at all this more closely and will be organising a workshop shortly on how we should respond. As always, we would value any feedback from members on the consultation.
Benson Osawe
NUS International Students' Officer
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