Cardiff University to cut 400 jobs

[Mottie]

Share it with us. Post a link.

I think I may have read….

 

[noseall]

I think I may have read….

Most of us can read too. Post a link, please?

 

[Mottie]

I think I may have read….

 

[fillyboy]

Rules were tightened in Jan 2024 so that only partners and children could be classified as dependants. Bit of a free for all before that.

 

[MNW67]

Panorama from 2014:

Panorama goes undercover in Britain's multi million pound trade in immigration visas and exposes the breath-taking frauds that allow bogus foreign students - some with little or no English - to remain in the UK. Around a hundred thousand non EU students applied to the UK Border Agency last year to extend their stay here but it seems studying is not the main aim for all of them as some simply want to stay on to work illegally. Reporter Richard Watson unmasks the criminal immigration agents who - in return for cash - secure places at private colleges by arranging forged and fraudulent documents including bank statements that are good enough to fool immigration officers. The programme reveals how Government-approved exams - designed to weed out those with inadequate English - are being routinely subverted with fake sitters taking spoken English exams for the bogus students and multiple choice tests where they're given all the answers.

BBC News - Panorama, The Student Visa Scandal

Panorama goes undercover in Britain's multi million pound trade in immigration visas.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Mottie]

I think I may have read about parents and grandparents being 'dependants' too.

Share it with us. Post a link.

Here you go. All stopped now though.

 

[noseall]

Here you go. All stopped now though.

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Parents that are dependent on care - perfectly understandable.

Regular parents or grandparents - standard lying.

 

[transam]

I think I may have read….

Yeah I recall seeing some thing on that (?)

 

[Mottie]

Parents that are dependent on care - perfectly understandable.

Regular parents or grandparents - standard lying.

Regardless, you got the link requested so my thinking that I had read it somewhere before was correct. Happy now?

 

[Notch7]

Maybe if a man has ten wives?

On my way to St Ives…..

 

[Notch7]

Rules were tightened in Jan 2024 so that only partners and children could be classified as dependants. Bit of a free for all before that.

It was Boris Johnson 2019 govt that reintroduced the relaxed rules.

I think it was Jo Johnsons pet project

In hindsight a bad idea….almost as bad as Blair not having transition arrangement when the A8 Eastern blok nations joined EU

 

[noseall]

Yeah I recall seeing some thing on that (?)

You won't because it isn't true.

 

[ellal]

the reason appears to be caused by the reduction in foreign students due to changes in visas

My understanding is that the rules which allowed foreign students to come here, with family and stay and work up to 3 years after graduation was more open than most other countries and had led to the large numbers of foreign students coming here in recent years


Personally I think if the Higher Education model cant work without large number of foreign students then the model needs changing

Strangely enough the system worked quite well when in the EU...

Students could go back and forth as they wished, and take advantage of what the UK had to offer and vice versa...

Those who voted for brexit wrecked that harmony!

 

[transam]

You won't because it isn't true.

Well I recall some thing along those lines
Seem to remember there was some type of court case / private prosecution on the caper

 

[noseall]

Well I recall some thing along those lines

Along those lines - I get that. If you read Motties screenshot, you will see where the lines in truth and bullshít are.