Injurious visa rules irk Miliband

By Chris Parr. Ex-foreign secretary decries border policy debarring lucrative overseas students. Chris Parr reports
"Boneheaded" government immigration policy is jeopardising the higher education sector by deterring international students from UK study, former foreign secretary David Miliband has said.
Prime Minister David Cameron has pledged to reduce net migration to under 100,000 by the next general election. Although the Office for National Statistics has announced it will publish disaggregated net migration figures that do not include international students, they will still be included in the overall numbers against which this target is measured.
Mr Miliband said that the government was "pursuing this political slogan of reducing immigration to tens of thousands" at the expense of developing a "sensible" immigration policy. More...