BBC News - London Metropolitan University students fear deportation
Hmm..I'm probably a little stupid, but the way I read this...
a) A university can dish out visas to get bums on seats
b) These bums on seats allegedly spend money to boost our economy
c) There is no evidence of (b)
d) The university has no method of checking these bums turn up for lectures
e) University vice chancellor uses a phrases like 'not particularly cogent' to dispute observation (d)
It's all fine and dandy to quote a figure of £12.5 billion loss to export, without giving a shred of evidence to back up this figure.
Nowhere in this piece does it say where the funding for these places come from. I strongly suspect some, if not all, comes from my taxes.
Now I don't mind chucking a few pence a week to someone less fortunate who wants to learn and better themselves, but my mind does not feel particularly cogent to being taken for a ride