Crackdown on visa factories

By The Newsroom
Published 2nd Aug 2010, 16:06 BST
Updated 2nd Aug 2010, 20:40 BST
IMMIGRATION minister Damian Green pledged to crack down on bogus colleges being used as visa factories yesterday as the number of students coming to the UK leapt by a third last year to more than 300,000.

Official figures showed that the number of students coming to Britain from outside the EU to study increased by more than 75,000 in the 12 months to March.

Promising a "thorough evaluation" of the system, Mr Green said: "It's clear that there have been some large-scales scams with the student system ... and we are determined to crack down on this."