Rules for student visas to
be stricter in effort to reduce overseas
workers
The Government’s plans for stricter
regulations on non European Union (EU) overseas student work visas
have been criticized today by the Centerforum think-tank with
claims it could impact on up to 24,000 jobs in the UK economy.
Under the plans proposed the UK government
would make it harder for non EU students to gain work visas meaning
many would be unable to study or stay within the UK current figures
show that two thirds of those from non EU migrants are arriving on
student visas. Current plans underlined include increasing the
language requirements for non EU overseas students with stricter
testing of their grasp of the English language.
The idea is to toughen up the requirements on English language
to improve the chances of UK graduates finding
a job and whilst the thinktank agrees more needs to be done to
crackdown on “bogus colleges” they also comment that
“simplistically hiking the English language requirement prevents
British universities from attracting some of the very best
international students - especially those studying maths,
engineering and the sciences.''
The Vice chancellor of the University of Sheffield also reflects
the comments from with CenterForum with them commenting
that''Britain's world-class higher education system is at risk from
these ill-judged reforms. By using the one crude measure of English
proficiency to tackle bogus students, the Government is
jeopardising universities and jobs that rely on them around the
country.''
The tightening of rules could very well be a
double edged sword for the UK economy and its graduate recruitment
market; tighter rules would almost certainly reduce overseas
students, increasing the job opportunities for domestic graduates
however it would also impact on UK universities funding as overseas
students do tend to pay high fees to study within the United
Kingdom and without the incentive of potentially working in the UK
after graduating many overseas graduates will think twice
before studying in the UK. Addtionally Many
industry sectors may also find that their recruitment
options are limited by this move.
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