There seems to be no end to the madness these days. The mood and general fear of foreigners that seems partly responsible for the Brexit vote in the UK is far from over. In December, the Home Office let it be known that they were considering reducing international student quotas almost in half – from 300,00 to 170,000. Naturally, a number of university heads have expressed alarm and some have said that students are already being denied visas on spurious grounds such as:
- an applicant was deemed to be ungenuine for not knowing the library’s opening hours
- another was denied for not knowing the name of the vice chancellor of the school he was planning to attend
- another was denied a visa because the balance of his bank account was a few pounds short of the balance specified during a 90 day period, even though his parents had considerable funds and their accounts were also submitted
To read more about why more international students will be heading to Australia and Canada, read the artile in The Guardian.