US: Stricter UK visa rules close campus

Less than six months after the British government announced tighter restrictions on student visas, at least one university has said it is being forced to close one of its campuses as a result of the new regulations, writes Jonathan J Li for The New York Times.

Schiller International University, which is based in Florida and has four other international campuses, is closing its London campus and will not start its autumn semester, officials said. The university would not provide enrolment figures but said 80% to 85% of its students were from non-European Union countries, which meant that they required visas to study in Britain.

"The decision to close our London campus was directly related to the new UK immigration rules," William Moore, Executive Vice-president of the university, said in an e-mail. The new visa rules were announced in a speech to parliament in March by Home Secretary Theresa May, in which she said the government was "cracking down on bogus colleges" and "bogus students".
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