SCOTLAND: Probe into university visa scam

Scotland's Immigration Minister Damian Green admitted last week that there might be widespread abuses of a visa scheme that provides foreign students with the chance to enrol at UK institutions, after irregularities were found at a university, writes Kate Devlin for The Herald.

Green spoke out after it emerged that foreign nurses enrolled at Glasgow Caledonian University worked long hours in care homes hundreds of kilometres away. The Home Office told MPs that it is investigating an unnamed 'third party' that is thought to have found the course for the 135 Filipino students and arranged for where they would work. Officials told MPs it had been going on since October.

Last month, the institution became the first UK university to have its overseas student visa licence suspended. Some of the foreign nursing students were working up to 100 hours a week as far away as Northern Ireland, the Midlands and the south-east of England, despite a ban on them carrying out more than 20 hours of paid work. Only a tiny minority lived in Glasgow.
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