Indian students seeking to study in the UK will likely not be affected by recent changes to the student visa rules, said Peter Beckingham, British deputy high commissioner, at an event on November 28, 2011.
The new rules, announced earlier this year, referred to denying UK student visas for admission offers from certain UK institutions and eliminating the option of the two-year post-study work visa from April 2012.
“There has been a decline in the number of students going from India to the UK because the government has deemed some universities as not appropriate,” said Beckingham. “The actual number of students going to recognised universities, however, has gone up.”
A delegation from Imperial College in London visit Mumbai on November 28, 2011 as part of a tour to explore research partnerships with Indian institutions as well as announce new scholarships for prospective student wishing to come to the UK under student visa routes.
“I don’t think the situation is at all in any way severe. Things are moving in the right direction,” said Sir Keith O’Nions, the university’s rector. He also emphasized that students would be able to apply for a new kind of post-study work visa called the “enterprise visa”.
The rector also announced new funding for students wishing to pursue PhD programmes at Imperial from the term beginning September or October 2012.
“(We are) trying to fill in the gap existing in India’s higher education, especially PhD programmes,” added O’Nions. He also expressed, in light of the Foreign Universities Bill, “We are not planning to set up a campus in India, as we do not have that capacity.”
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