Mark Easton
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first heard Sep 2010
last heard Sep 2010
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And there will be some, I'm sure, even now, despite very tight controls on all of this, who come to Britain to study and stay illegally, hiding from the authorities, you know, for some time afterwards.
The thing is, though, that the thing that we worry about, illegal migration, is not going to be affected by the government's determination to reduce the net migration figure to below 100,000.
I think that certainly has been a real problem.
My point in the blog was trying to make out that there was a suggestion, again, I think, in the language that was used, that anybody who was studying in Britain at sub-degree level was somehow a bit dodgy.
My point was that that's just clearly illogical.
I mean, there are lots of students who are here at private boarding schools from all over the world who are not dodgy in the least of bringing valuable cash into the country.
But you're right.
The vast majority of those who are here at sub-degree level are coming to study at colleges in a number that have been proved to have been completely bogus.
They were really just fronts for people to get round the immigration system.
Over the last few years, the previous government was still tightening up the rules on that.
If you come to Britain now on a sub-degree course, your institution has to be on something called the highly trusted sponsors list held by the Home Office.
It's been reduced, I think, from something like 40,000 institutions down to less than 7,000.
So those things have been changed.
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