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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Sally Weale and Rajeev Syal

Student visa crackdown will make funding crisis worse, says Universities UK

Vivienne Stern
Vivienne Stern, the chief executive of Universities UK (UUK), says any new restrictions would limit the ability to recruit from abroad. Photograph: handout

New proposals to crack down on student visa applications in order to reduce asylum claims will make the financial crisis facing beleaguered UK universities “considerably worse”, the government has been told.

Ahead of the publication of an immigration white paper, there have been reports that student visa applications from nationalities considered likely to overstay and claim asylum in the UK could be targeted as part of a new government crackdown.

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