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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Sally Weale Education correspondent

Nigeria takes up case of its Teesside University students ordered out of UK

The Curve teaching site at Teeside University
The Curve teaching site at Teeside University. Changes to repayment plans led to financial difficulties for Nigerian students. Photograph: Peter Jordan/Alamy

Delegates from the Nigerian high commission in London are to meet bosses from Teesside University to discuss the treatment of a group of students who were ordered to leave the UK after failing to meet tuition repayments.

The Nigerian students were left distressed and in some cases suicidal after they were involuntarily withdrawn from their courses and ordered to leave, in what has been described as a “serious diplomatic issue”.

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