Times Higher Education, Visa refusal fears ‘force UK universities out of international markets’
While international students coming to the UK to study from certain regions of the world, such as India, are in decline, the Westminster Higher Education Forum gives us yet another perspective as to why this might be happening.
The Forum suggests that UK universities have been forced to stop recruiting international students from parts of the world that the Home Office considers to be ‘high risk for immigration offences’. In line with this, applicants from certain areas of Nigeria, Pakistan and India were considered to be a particular risk.
NUS International Students Officer, Mostafa Rajaai has responded that rejecting visa applications because previous students from the same area had failed to go home at the end of their studies, was “very unfair”.