Most would appreciate, even support government crackdown on bogus colleges that robe students of their hard earned money but provide questionable, even worthless qualifications and stringent but fair test in English language, essential ingredient to succeed.
However introduction of superficial quota system, Hobson’s choice will deprive genuine students who meet high standard but miss out due to unfair quota system, thus forcing them to go to USA and Australia for further studies, depriving our world class universities of much needed finance that may lead to even higher student fees capped at £9000 annually. It seems PM Cameron and Home Secretary Theresa May want to apply corrosive cosmetic surgery to address their failed immigration policy, sacrifice Indian students at the altar as immigration is hot topic in public domain.
Some may construe this Bailey bridge policy as racist, as it principally targets students from Indian subcontinent, not other white commonwealth nations, although to be fair, not many of their aspiring students enrich our educational establishments.
PM Cameron, who is contrived to be India friendly with close personal repertoire with Indian PM Modi, will be judged on action, not sweet, smoothing words that come with ease to most politicians.
Kumudini Valambia
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