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Strathclyde refuses to get INTO partnership »

Controversial proposals by a Glasgow-based university to carve out the recruitment and teaching of international students to a private provider have been ditched, The Journal can reveal. Senior management at the University of Strathclyde has ended t...

Fri 20 Jan 2012 by Alan Robertson | Read more »

News Shorts »

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 »

International students slam UKBA plans »

The majority of international students would not have come to the UK if new visa restrictions had been in place, an NUS survey has revealed. As previously reported by The Journal, the UK Border Agency (UKBA) is proposing to change the visa regulations...

Wed 23 Feb 2011 by Ruth Jeffery | 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 »

Bogus students, bogus system »

The UK Border Agency's (UKBA) clamp down on international student visas is causing more mayhem than it is worth. To apply for a visa, international students are expected to provide bank statements, dated a month before they apply, proving they have suf...

Wed 25 Nov 2009 | Read more »

Global - not yet world class »

Last year, the University of Edinburgh recruited nearly 7000 students from outside the UK, across undergraduate, masters and PhD programmes. While most of those were from North America, we have 2,959 new students from Europe and Central Asia, 790 from ...

Tue 17 Nov 2009 by Evan Beswick | 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 »

Obama could draw students away from UK »

The election of Barack Obama as US president could threaten British universities' intake of foreign students, education experts claim. Leading analysts have said that as the negative perceptions of America diminish and US visa restrictions are relaxed...

Sun 23 Nov 2008 by Marthe Lamp Sandvik | Read more »

Scant progress on dodgy landlords »

Students in Edinburgh have once again fallen victim to scams by online fraudsters posing as legitimate landlords on a popular flat-finding website. A number of Napier University students were conned out of hundreds of pounds when they arrived in the c...

Sun 09 Nov 2008 by Jodi Mullen | Read more »

Napier students scammed by bogus landlords »

Internet fraudsters swindled five Napier University international students out of hundreds of pounds by posing as landlords on a flat-finding website.The students used the Gumtree website to find accommodation in Edinburgh whilst still in their native...

Mon 05 Nov 2007 by Sarah Clark | Read more »