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UK: Border Agency revokes London Metropolitan University's licensing for enrolling foreign students

30 August 2012

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UK: London Met banned from enrolling overseas students (Times Higher Education, link)

The UK Border Agency has revoked London Metropolitan University's licence to sponsor overseas students, a move that means the institution cannot continue to teach its existing 2,600 students from outside the EU.

See also: London Met decision: ill-judged, badly timed and poorly executed (Guardian, link)

And: Statewatch analysis: New immigration system forces UK academics to act as "an extra arm of the police" (June 2009, link)

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