{"id":31,"date":"2011-11-02T09:40:46","date_gmt":"2011-11-02T09:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/?p=31"},"modified":"2021-10-18T08:26:35","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T08:26:35","slug":"education-news-470-colleges-lose-foreign-student-licences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/2011\/11\/education-news-470-colleges-lose-foreign-student-licences\/","title":{"rendered":"Education news: 470 colleges lose foreign student licences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"float: right;\" ><a class=\"twitter-share-button\"  data-via=\"\" data-count=\"none\" data-related=\"mohanjith:S H Mohanjith\" data-lang=\"en\" data-url=\"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/2011\/11\/education-news-470-colleges-lose-foreign-student-licences\/\" data-text=\"Education news: 470 colleges lose foreign student licences\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=&#038;count=none&#038;related=mohanjith%3AS%20H%20Mohanjith&#038;lang=en&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fhelpmeinvestigate.com%2Feducation%2F2011%2F11%2Feducation-news-470-colleges-lose-foreign-student-licences%2F&#038;text=Education%20news%3A%20470%20colleges%20lose%20foreign%20student%20licences\" >Tweet<\/a><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/education-15544453\">Fascinating story<\/a> from the excellent Dominic Casciani on how many colleges have been barred from accepting non-EU students following a Border Agency crackdown:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Earlier this year,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk\/sitecontent\/documents\/news\/sop4.pdf\">tighter rules were introduced on student visas<\/a>, primarily aimed at private colleges offering language or vocational courses.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The UK Border Agency investigated more than 100 colleges after officials recorded a spike in applications from South Asia, shortly before language rules were tightened.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Staff at [one] college tried to avoid an inspection by claiming they were refurbishing the building. Investigators learnt the management were actually hiding inside with the lights turned off.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TweetFascinating story from the excellent Dominic Casciani on how many colleges have been barred from accepting non-EU students following a Border Agency crackdown: &#8220;Earlier this year,\u00a0tighter rules were introduced on student visas, primarily aimed at private colleges offering language or &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/2011\/11\/education-news-470-colleges-lose-foreign-student-licences\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[14,15,17,16],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1353,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions\/1353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}