The Minister for Immigration, Damian Green, has announced a review of Tier 4 of the points based system following figures were released showing a further increase in the number of migrants coming to the UK each year on Student Visas. The Student Visa route has long concerned the Conservatives and the previous Labour Government. The announcement will undoubtedly lead to further tightening of the legislation surrounding Tier 4 of the Points Based System.
More than 203,000 immigrants were granted British citizenship last year, a 58% rise on the previous year and are worth over £8 billion to the economy.
Speaking on the subject of Tier 4, The Minister of State for Immigration, Damian Green said that “We are committed to attracting the brightest and the best to the United Kingdom, and welcome legitimate students coming here for study. However, in the past there has been significant abuse of the student route, and we need to ensure that every student who comes to the UK is genuine.”
“Therefore I am undertaking a thorough evaluation of the student system over the coming weeks and months and I will introduce new measures to minimise abuse and tighten the system further."
Additional legislation has already been put in place with Agents who find and place students now being monitored. Cliff Shaw, Student Attendance specialist with Vizual Management Solutions stated “Student Attendance Monitoring software now needs to have the ability to record against each student the agent who placed them. This will enable the college to monitor and subsequently report on the performance of agents in respect of items such as non-registration, student absence rates and uncompleted courses.”
Additional legislation has already been put in place with Agents who find and place students now being monitored. Cliff Shaw, Student Attendance specialist with Vizual Management Solutions stated “Student Attendance Monitoring software now needs to have the ability to record against each student the agent who placed them. This will enable the college to monitor and subsequently report on the performance of agents in respect of items such as non-registration, student absence rates and uncompleted courses.”
“The CaptureIT Student Attendance Monitoring System by Vizual has been designed to meet the UKBA and Home Office regulations with a combination of biometric fingerprint technology and student proximity ID cards which ensure students are who they say they are. This removes the unreliability associated with manual registers and that is a key area that the UKBA is concerned with. It also helps the college to reduce administration time and associated costs when dealing with Agent Monitoring.
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