With so many unemployed graduates is a crackdown on non-EU students entering the UK the right solution?
Students coming into the UK from outside of the EU should be stopped according to immigration minister Damian Green; this is in order to give British graduates the best chance of finding a graduate job.
These new reforms aim to crack down on non-EU students rights to work for up to 2 years after completing their studies in order to crackdown on student visas. With graduate unemployment at its highest level in more than a decade and one out of every five out of work.. “It seems to me that to allow unfettered access to the jobs market for two years to anyone with a student visa from abroad is putting an unnecessary extra strain on our own graduates," said Mr Green.
With many barriers to entry being implemented for students entering into higher education, this new system hopes to encourage people to stay in education. However many argue that universities make most of their profit from these foreign applicants, which means that without government backing these plans will be difficult to implement.
The plans to make it tough for non-EU students to attend private colleges offering non-degree courses would cut the number of arrivals by 90,000. This also may be detrimental to many graduate employers and thier recruitment plans, who find the language skills of non-EU immigrants useful. Therefore universities are going to have to pick and choose more carefully.
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