UK sees 600,000 foreign students coming to country a year - ‘Is it a good thing?’ | Liam Halligan

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[boofuu]

yet we cannot train enough of our own, something seriously wrong here

[colinlawless]

This can't go on. We are becoming a dump.

[ruthcollins]

Allow paying students but BLOCK ALL family

[mrcrown]

Why are we educating the world at the expense of our own young people?

[colinstewart]

We're turning the UK into a sausage factory.

[snakeplissken]

the problem is not the foreign students coming, its their not going home again afterwards

[mommersteeg]

students don't pay council tax. that is a lot of burden for towns and cities,

[janetgreen]

Students?! I think we can use the term very loosely! How sad, though, that we allegedly educate foreign students, yet our own must be the thickest and, dullest, of any generation!!

[evolassunglasses]

We have reduced our homeland to economic zone open to the World. We got captured by international finance capitalism in 1945 and never broke free.

[benbow]

If current trends continue then the Indigenous British People will be an ethnic minority in our own country within forty years.

[peterfrance]

Supermarkets and the food industry absolutely love massive population increases. It explains why they embrace diversity with so much enthusiasm.

[MsJackrussell]

Why should these students be allowed to bring dependents? The dependents are not the ones being educated. But Oxbridge universities in particular are desperate for foreign £££ to support professors and their six figure salaries.

[jacksimper]

Over 1/2 million students add onto this family members who claim benefits as well, then housing, free services (NHS etc) . Is this not a huge problem on it`s own ?

[tonygyles]

Are all 600, 000 paying the full course fees?
Or do they get here for 1 day and plead poverty and get a UK student loan?
I reckon there is a student loan scam going on.

[christophercurtis]

Go to any sixth form or college in London and see the transformation

[grahamsangster]

Pakistani guy in the shop down the road sqid yesterday to me that he's going away back to pakistan soon to get married and come back with his new wife, he only came to the UK 4mths ago, that can't be right surely

[Asdfgghhhjj]

The problem is not with the foriegn students but the Graduate visa scheme. Everyone can come to the UK for their higher education as long as they pay for everything themselves, but I don't see why this should make them entitle to "jumping the queue" for skilled worker visa.

[bikokch]

Yes for students, no for families. When I was in Uni none of my overseas classmates had a single family member came with them. I wonder who those people are and which Uni. It’s unlikely to have top Uni students bring their family members with them, most of them return home to earn higher salary rather than stay here. How many of those are from lower ranks Uni e.g tiny universities which only have one teaching block, not even a campus.

[stephenmurray]

I want you to keep the number £37, 011 in your head, because that's how much student finance foreign born IMMIGRANTS can potentially get, ANNUALLY. I work in the system. Our government are paying immigrants/foreigners billions in student loans, fees, grants, disability payments and free childcare. EU nationals and their families can be granted settled status and be entitled to full student funding if here for 5 years. An illegal immigrant can be considered British if they managed to live have their lives undetected meaning most applying for funding aged 24 can do so if brought here before the age of 12, even if illegally. They can also be granted status if they have a UK partner or if they get pregnant while here.

( "settled status" grants EU nationals and their families who have spent five years in the UK the same rights as British citizens including equal rights to healthcare, education, benefits and pensions.
A foreigner can also get full funding if they have a "British" family member. Normally this is an African given a UK passport.)

However, the vast majority of those I speak to holding this status are AFRICAN and MIDDLE EASTERN . They arrive illegally to the EU, get an Italian passport (most commonly) and suddenly they are European, qualify for settled status if in UK for 5 years and then get British passports, earning full rights to all forms of student funding. They are fleecing us for billions in student loans, grants and childcare.

Childcare is 85% of childcare costs. Today I had a call where an African woman was getting £16, 381 in childcare alone. Just childcare. This didn't include her disability allowance and fees. Maximum childcare amount is £315.03 per week, parents learning allowance (extra money simply for having kids, which all Africans who call seem to do) is £1863 annually, Maintenance loan up to £12667, Fees up to £9250.

They can also get an allowance if they have disabilities. DSA disabled students allowance. One foreign girl got £768 for a laptop.

Potentially every family member of a part-time (10 hours) burger flipping immigrant who can't speak English can get up to £37011, paid for by indigenous Britons. I honestly believe if more people understood what was happening they would be enraged.

I see people daily who can barely speak English asking questions such as "what free money can I get for my wife" and "when will I get my money that I am ENTITLED to". Even today an African man in the country for less than a year called about his free childcare for his children as he is a migrant worker.

A Sri Lankan can get funding if the partner of an eu immigrant. You are paying not only for immigrants but even immigrants to the immigrants country while our elderly starve and freeze.

On top of this many foreigners with children also upload evidence showing what they earn in universal credit. £1305 per month is about standard for an unemployed foreigner with a child. For example, one girl I had who spoke no English was getting £1305 in benefits (£409.89 universal credit, £378.69 housing and £517.08 for her children). Another, again no English, was getting £1144.06 (£324.84 in benefits, £582.14 in housing and £237.08 for her child) Compare this to the wage of someone working this job who gets £1329 per month for working 37.5 hours per week.

I also had a young English girl rape victim in tears after being left with only £2000 for the year because we clawed back their loan from the previous year after they withdrew early due to being raped (by an illegal). Meanwhile 80% of my calls are from foreigners who barely speak English and are getting tens of thousands per year in tuition fees, maintenance loans, childcare grants, Parents Learning grants etc. Most of this is never paid back as most are grants and the loans themselves are only paid back in less than 20% of cases, the majority of which is by indigenous British students.

It is absolutely soul destroying to see this mass wealth transfer from hard working Britons to all and sundry before my own eyes. A billion every year while our own pensioners freeze. Just today I had an immigrant who was getting more in universal credit with 2 children than I get in wages for 40 hrs a week. We are being played and the public need to know. Consider the money transferred from the tax payer to foreigners in foreign aid, hotels for dinghy invaders, translators, free housing and now this. It is almost like the Government is trying to transfer our money from us.

Many dodgy universities and lawyers set up by ethnic minorities are bankrolled to help immigrants who can't speak English secure finance. Many can speak so little English that they can't complete an application form themselves so charities (mainly run by non whites) do the application for them. How can someone like this be a university student when a degree is supposed to be the highest level of education.?

This must be stopped. I would appreciate it if you could share. U

[suzannehaigh]

Depends on what they are studying. We should train some of our own Doctors instead of just foreign ones, just because they pay more to the uni.