Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Home Affairs Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (9 download)
Book Synopsis Bogus colleges by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Home Affairs Committee
Download or read book Bogus colleges written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Home Affairs Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2009-07-21 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insufficient quality assurance procedures on the part of the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills for private educational establishments on the Register of Education Providers, which facilitated the issuing of student visas between 2005 and 2009, allowed bogus colleges to bring foreign nationals into the UK on fraudulent student visas. The Committee suspects that a significant proportion of some 2,200 colleges which have not transferred from the Register of Education Providers to the new register of sponsors under the points based immigration system are not legitimate. Colleges not on the register of sponsors will no longer be able to facilitate student visas, but the number of illegal immigrants who may already have entered the UK on fraudulent student visas may run into tens of thousands. The report finds no substantial evidence to corroborate the alleged link between bogus colleges and terrorist activity. Evidence suggests that most individuals entering the UK on fraudulently-obtained student visas do so in order to work illegally. New arrangements for issuing student visas under the points based immigration system do appear to provide a more effective means of countering bogus colleges but the inspection regime in place gives cause for concern. The report strongly recommends that the Government uses the Companies Act 2006 to restrict use of the term "college" in future to properly accredited institutions and instigates an inspection regime to enforce this.