Britain set to be a post-multicultural state

[aelf]

The crackdown on immigration proceeds in earnest!

Major changes to student visa system

Tougher criteria for people wanting to come to the UK to study and limits on their right to work are among major reforms to the student visas system announced today.

Following a Home Office review which revealed widespread abuse of the system, and a public consultation, major changes aim to tighten up the system and protect the brightest and best students.

Old system changed

Home Secretary Theresa May said: 'International students not only make a vital contribution to the UK economy but they also help make our education system one of the best in the world.

'But it has become very apparent that the old student visa regime failed to control immigration and failed to protect legitimate students from poor quality colleges.

'The changes I am announcing today re-focus the student route as a temporary one, available to only the brightest and best. The new system is designed to ensure students come for a limited period, to study not work, and make a positive contribution while they are here.'

What's changing?

From April 2012 all institutions wanting to sponsor students will have to be classed as 'highly trusted sponsors' and become accredited by statutory education inspection bodies by the end of 2012.

The current system does not require this and allowed too many poor quality colleges into the system

Those coming to study at degree level will have to speak a higher level of English than now.

UK Border Agency staff will be able to refuse entry to students who cannot speak English without an interpreter and who therefore do not meet the required standards.

Work rights

Students at universities and publicly funded further education colleges will retain current work rights but all other students will have no right to work,

Restrictions will be placed on work placements at courses outside of universities.

The 'post study work route', which allowed students two years to seek employment after their course ended has been closed.

Only those graduates who have an offer of a skilled job from a sponsoring employer, in Tier 2 of the points-based-system, will be able to stay to work

Meanwhile, only postgraduate students at universities and government sponsored students to be will be able to bring their family members with them.

At the moment all students on longer courses are able to bring dependants.

And the overall time that can be spent on a student visa will be limited to three years at lower levels, as now, and five years at higher levels. There is currently no limit for study at or above degree level.

Eliminating abuse

Theresa May added: 'My aim is not to stop genuine students coming here - it is to eliminate abuse within the system. Our stricter accreditation process will see only first class education providers given licences to sponsor students.

'I am delighted to announce that alongside our stricter rules, we will ensure that innovative student entrepreneurs who are creating wealth are able to stay in the UK to pursue their ideas.'

The government has committed to reforming all routes of entry to the UK in order to bring immigration levels under control.

The student changes will work alongside the annual limit on economic migration, and reforms to family and settlement routes planned for later this year.

Source

This is a step towards Britain's victory in the war against multiculturalism. The country will begin by trying to cut down on the number of foreign students who pay unsubsidised rates for their education in British institutions. Only "the brightest and the best" are welcome, and after that they have to leave, unless they already have job offers (which we can be reasonably sure will be made more difficult to obtain).

Such measures are in place to ensure that Britain will remain British and that its hallowed traditions will not be soiled by the influx of foreign talents and intellectuals. Of course, all sorts of interests might be against the crackdown on the number of smartypants entering and staying, which is why most of the government rhetoric is directed against uneducated immigrants. Moreover, Britain remains officially welcoming to foreign students who contribute to the country while cutting down on their numbers. Hopefully, this way British universities will not lose out even as the war against immigration proceeds. It is no wonder, then, that the universities are lauding it as "a cunning plan".

So what do you think? Is Britain's plan wise as well as cunning?

 

[ParadigmShifter]

Link to video.

 

[Kyriakos]

Nice video ParadigmShifter. Goes to show that a number of immigrants would serve Britain a lot better than some of its native sons.

Also, "muslamic" made me smile

 

[ParadigmShifter]

The Muslamic rake gangs!!! I have leaves on my lawn that need raking - I'd rather get a hard working muslim to do it than an idiot.

 

[Winston Hughes]

Thus far, the Tories' anti-immigration agenda looks just as meaningless as ever. Like the anti-multiculturalism thing, I'd wager it'll be all mouth and no trousers. The only reason they bother at all is to prevent more votes leaking to foamy-mouthed paranoiacs like UKIP and the BNP.

 

[ParadigmShifter]

They just hate universities, who make a packet out of foreign students.

 

[Arakhor]

Just get in the Daily Mail - they hate everyone and everything. Don't forget, folks - Islam causes cancer!

 

[ParadigmShifter]

Nah, "Will Islam give your mortgage AIDS?" is more realistic.

 

[aelf]

They hate universities and Islam - there's got to be a connection between the two!

Thus far, the Tories' anti-immigration agenda looks just as meaningless as ever. Like the anti-multiculturalism thing, I'd wager it'll be all mouth and no trousers. The only reason they bother at all is to prevent more votes leaking to foamy-mouthed paranoiacs like UKIP and the BNP.

I don't know about meaningless. Many of the foreign students I know consider the elimination of the post-study work visa very detrimental to attracting foreign students. But maybe this is statistically untrue. Maybe it won't have a significant effect on the number of foreign students going to UK universities?

 

[GinandTonic]

Just get in the Daily Mail - they hate everyone and everything. Don't forget, folks - Islam causes cancer!

And good god what it does for house prices!

 

[CivCube]

Who cares if someone moves into your neighborhood? You don't have to live in the same house to be a good neighbor.

 

[Mise]

Stupid policy motivated by a stupid election promise to slash net migration, even though the vast, vast majority of immigrants come from the EU or to attend our universities. Just another day under a Tory government.

 

[ParadigmShifter]

Well, the Tories are worried the UKIP or BNP will steal their core voters - which shows just how racist the Tories are.

Universities make loads of cash from non-EU students, who pay way over the odds for education.

 

[Arwon]

This is so racist against Australians.

 

[ParadigmShifter]

Payback for Neighbours and Home & Away.

 

[Joecoolyo]

The Muslamic rake gangs!!! I have leaves on my lawn that need raking - I'd rather get a hard working muslim to do it than an idiot.

Heh, with his thick accent, I thought he said "Muslim ray guns"

 

[GinandTonic]

This is so racist against Australians.

Sure, but that doesnt make it right.

 

[ParadigmShifter]

Muslamic Ray-Bans I think.

 

[Quackers]

So aelf are we gonna send you back home soon?

 

[Arakhor]

They can pack off all the British "foreigners" about the same time that they expatriate all the elitist white boys, as far as I'm concerned.