UNITED KINGDOM Could England’s higher education regulator come in from the cold after years of frozen relations with UK universities and the European Standards and Guidelines? That’s one of the questions left unanswered after the publication of an independent review of the Office for Students (OfS). Led by Sir David Behan and titled Fit for...
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Universities heed Labour’s call to put the country first
UNITED KINGDOM British universities seem to have understood the memo from the new Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer about putting the country before self-interest and are rolling up their sleeves to work collaboratively with government on a “mission of national renewal”, according to experts. With the left-of-centre Labour Party storming to a landslide victory in...
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Graduate Route safe for now as General Election declared
UNITED KINGDOM Higher education stakeholders finally breathed a sigh of relief as the British government confirmed that the Graduate Route, which allows international students to stay in the United Kingdom for two years after graduation to look for work, is to be retained in its current form. The announcement came the day after UK voters...
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Nigerian students unable to pay fees are told to leave UK
UNITED KINGDOM-NIGERIA Some Nigerian students at Teesside University have been ordered to leave the United Kingdom, after falling behind with their tuition fees because of the currency crisis and devaluation of the Nigerian naira. They have been told they have no right to appeal, according to documents obtained by the BBC. The Middlesbrough-based university in...
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Prime Minister has ‘agreed to keep Graduate Route’ – Report
UNITED KINGDOM Prime Minister Rishi Sunak appears to have accepted the recommendation of the independent review of the politically charged Graduate Route that the United Kingdom government should leave the post-study work visa scheme in its current form. The route allows international students to stay in the UK for two years after graduation to try...
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Leave the Graduate Route as it is, MAC tells government
UNITED KINGDOM An independent review of the politically charged Graduate Route, which allows international students to stay in the United Kingdom for two years after graduation to try to find work, has recommended that the government leave the post-study work visa scheme in its current form. The review by the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) was...
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What went wrong with international education in the UK?
UNITED KINGDOM Commentating on the state of international education in the United Kingdom since 2019 resembles something akin to a slow-motion car crash as post-study work visas, hailed as essential for the sustained growth of international student recruitment, have become the sector’s de facto crutch in the absence of a strategy to support international graduates’...
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Youth mobility impasse reveals UK’s divide and rule tactics
UNITED KINGDOM-EUROPE University World News has reported on the swift and negative response of both the United Kingdom Labour Party, which sees itself as the government in waiting, and the ruling Conservative Party to the latest ideas of the European Commission on a mobility plan to enable UK and EU citizens in the 18-30 age...
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50+ universities cut jobs as overseas students stay away
UNITED KINGDOM More than 50 British universities have confirmed academic job losses as a volatile market for international student recruitment and stalled growth in income from home students forces higher education bosses to scrap or slim down less popular academic programmes, with arts and humanities bearing the brunt. While most UK universities reported surpluses in...
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UK snubs EC bid to negotiate EU-UK deal on study mobility
UNITED KINGDOM-EUROPE The European Commission (EC) announced on Thursday that it is seeking permission from the European Council to open talks with the United Kingdom on a new arrangement that would allow greater freedom of movement for 18- to 30-year-olds to work and study. The initiative would open the way to restoring freedom of movement...