Jump to content

Beds in sheds -


observer

Recommended Posts

What amazes me is that it is well known that the more affluent councils patrol areas by helicopter to detect householders that have built structures on their properties without planning permission, these structures that have been assembled in back gardens must have been known about previously and yet have not been acted upon before.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

They've known about "the sheds" for some time Alg; Councils would argue they've niether the powers or funding to tackle it. What's required is a clear policy to start with, ans then the means to carry it out. Kije, your pathetic arguement about "money" would suggest we hang a huge red light outside UK plc, and welcome any and all. :roll:

Link to comment
Share on other sites

So you would sell our students souls, to get your way then Obs?

 

they ain't "our" students KIje... they are students from foreign lands; some of whom when they go back, use their education to create jobs and businesses in their own countries that could eventually take work from "our" own workers...... Universities may have lost £30m but in the long term, educating your business rivals will eventually cost us a lot more!

Link to comment
Share on other sites

They pay alot more money for their degrees Baz, and so subsidise our students,

 

I got this from Oxford University

 

International students

 

Oxford's university community is truly international. Students currently come from 138 countries around the world and study a wide range of subjects. They make up one third of our student body, including 14 percent of our full-time undergraduate students and 63 percent of our full-time postgraduates.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

I thought the point in question was foreigners coming to the UK on the pretext of being students but not, in fact, turning up for study but then working in the black economy which is not to our advantage economically or otherwise. Rules are rules, and they are not made to make illegal immigration easier.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Not sure on that Baz, the London met said they got 30 million a year from foreign students, I think they may have to pay a year up front.

 

....and they fraudulently claimed £56 million from us taxpayers via the HEFCE in 2008/9 alone! Close them down and we're instantly £26 million a year better off.

 

Hole, what hole??????

Link to comment
Share on other sites

They pay the university it's fees - £30 million a year you say.

 

The university robbed £56 million off the taxpayer in a single year by claiming money for students who had dropped out.

 

Any of the foreign students who dropped out and went to work in the black economy also robbed the taxpayer by not paying tax and NI on their earnings.

 

Better off as a result? I don't see how anyone with a brain could claim that we are!

Link to comment
Share on other sites

The HEFC, :shock:

 

The funding council inky, what planet are you on, we are talking about foreign student fees subsidising English students fees, perhaps you should put your brain in gear before continuing . The loss of students from outside the UK will effect English students unless the money they bring to universities is replaced. And on an other note parliament have condemned the border agency, and the London met are appealing.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

So you think it's fine to just give a student visa to people without checking that they even speak the language that their course is to be taught in, and without checking that they even attend their course, simply because they pay the first instalment of the fees up front?

 

And you think it's just fine for a university to not even check that its foreign students actually have permission to be in the country?

 

An employer would rightly face massive fines for employing someone with no right to be here, but it's just fine for a university to stuff it's student body and fraudulently inflate its block grant (which is based on TOTAL student numbers) to do so?

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

Loading...
×
×
  • Create New...