Year: 2014

The UK government has revoked the licences of 54 private colleges as of 23rd October, 2014, in its investigation into immigration fraud launched in June. The institutions were among 57 centres to have their licences suspended by the Home Office (Refer our earlier post) Simon Walker, director-general of the Institute of Directors, said he was […]

An estimated 48,000 immigrants may have fraudulently obtained English language certificates despite being unable to speak English, the government has said, Of the 48,000 certificates, 29,000 were invalidand 19,000 were “questionable”. said Immigration Minister James Brokenshire. Glyndwr University has lost its ‘highly trusted’ sponsor status after the test scores of more than 230 students it sponsored […]

The Student Visa ScandalWill broadcast in BBC One, Monday 10 February at 20:30 BST, by Richard Watson “What Panorama has uncovered is extremely important, it’s very shocking and I want to do something about it” Home Secretary Theresa May The Home Office has suspended English language tests run by a major firm after BBC Panorama […]