Immigration

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Scottish public supports tuition fees - The majority of the Scottish public believes that students should pay for university education, a survey has revealed. The survey, commissioned by the Scotsman and conducted by YouGov, questioned 1,135 Scottish...

Wed 04 May 2011 by Jessica Abrahams | Read more »

EUSA takes UKBA fight to Holyrood »

Edinburgh University Students' Association (EUSA) have registered their opposition to proposals from the UK Border Agency to limit the number of international students allowed to study in the UK. At a meeting with Scottish Government officials, E...

Wed 26 Jan 2011 by Lily Panamsky, Pierre Thistlejohn | Read more »

The muddle of immigration »

Last week the coalition government announced yet another ill thought-out policy. Students are already frustrated with this government after the Liberal Democrats’ volte-face on tuition fees, while George Osborne’s £89 billion public s...

Thu 25 Nov 2010 by Joe Coward | Read more »

Human trafficking chair eager to talk to victims »

The chair of a recently-launched human trafficking inquiry has told The Journal that she wants to “speak to the victims directly”. Baroness Helena Kennedy QC is to lead the Equality and Human Rights Commission's (EHRC) inquiry into the root and conseq...

Wed 17 Feb 2010 by Matthew Moore | Read more »

Visa suspensions could affect legitimate students »

Thousands of legitimate students have been affected by UK's suspension of student visas according to the president of the Education Consultants Association of Nepal. Uttam Prasad Pan said that Nepalese students may have been directly affected by the r...

Wed 17 Feb 2010 by Marcus De Wilde | Read more »

An undeclared Apartheid »

In 2004, Romanian municipal authorities evicted more than one hundred "gypsies" from their homes in the central region of Harghita County and relocated them to isolated, squalid land on the outskirts of nearby towns. Resettled in a series of small ...

Wed 03 Feb 2010 by Eloise Nutbrown | Read more »

Border agency regulations force universities to monitor overseas students »

The UK Border Agency (UKBA) has implemented new guidelines for universities, making it obligatory for them to monitor the attendance of overseas students. Jeremy Oppenheim, National Lead for Temporary Migration at the UKBA said: "We have made it clear...

Wed 28 Oct 2009 by Constantine Innemée | Read more »

Bogus colleges: Closing the loophole »

The recent, much-publicised arrests in connection with an alleged terrorist plot in Manchester have drawn attention to what is widely seen as the "weak link" in Britain's immigration system, namely the apparent ease with which students from outside the...

Mon 27 Apr 2009 by Geoffrey Alderman | Read more »

Immigration »

Britain has a proud tradition of offering sanctuary to those who need our help. The principles of asylum were laid down in the 1951 Geneva Convention, which defines a refugee as a person outside his or her country, with a well-founded fear of persecuti...

Mon 23 Feb 2009 by Phil Woolas | Read more »

Lecturers asked to spy on foreign students – again »

The government has outlined plans for surveillance units to keep an eye on international students in a bid to cut down on illegal immigration and falsified university applications. The new system, to be implemented in March next year, will require uni...

Sun 23 Nov 2008 by Hiran Balasuriya | Read more »

Gurkhas win high court case »

A group of veteran Gurkhas have won their immigration test case to settle in the UK at London’s High Court.An estimated 2,000 Gurkhas—Nepalese soldiers who fought for the British Crown—had been refused visas to settle in the UK on the...

Tue 14 Oct 2008 by Sarah Clark | Read more »

Securing the future »

We live in security-conscious days. Our political language and culture have become saturated by "security" and the related idea that we are living in an increasingly insecure world. This has generated more than its fair share of absurdities. Take the f...

Mon 13 Oct 2008 by Mark Neocleous | Read more »

The here-for-goods, the go-betweens and the left-behinds »

Thu 02 Oct 2008 by Lucy Jackson | Read more »

Daily Mail group behind drive to bring foreign students to UK »

For some it is the moral backbone of Middle England, for others its frequent articles attacking immigration have earnt it the nickname 'the Daily Hate'. Recent pieces have not only lambasted the government for its "catastrophic" immigration p...

Wed 26 Mar 2008 | Read more »

Equality chief calls for ‘extra points’ for immigrants coming to Scotland »

The head of Britain’s equality agency has this week claimed that approval of immigration applications should be weighted towards those wanting to settle in Scotland.Trevor Phillips, the chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, claims...

Wed 26 Mar 2008 by Elisabeth Evans | Read more »

Second class citizens »

As part of a series on shift workers, the BBC recently produced an interesting set of photos of a Polish bakery and its team of hardworking migrant workers – interesting not just in its depiction of the finishing touches to savoury cheese twists,...

Mon 03 Dec 2007 by Evan Beswick | Read more »

EU Enlargement: the human cost of our paranoia »

Whilst there are millions of people in this country who would disagree, Britain is far from being the fair and free country of our collective self-perception – the liberal democratic beacon shining on the rest of the world. In accepting the of...

Mon 03 Dec 2007 | Read more »

Driven underground: a migrant's tale »

Sonya came to Britain from Romania with the promise of work and a place to live. Told by a man in her home country that he would find her and her family jobs where they could earn £400 a week, the prospect of life in Edinburgh seemed all too temp...

Mon 03 Dec 2007 | Read more »

Ex-pats summoned to Polish election stations in UK »

As Scottish voters contemplate the widespread disenfranchisement of this year’s local and parliamentary elections, another community within the region has exercised its democratic rights with greater success. The Polish general election of 21 O...

Mon 05 Nov 2007 by Paris Gourtsoyannis | Read more »