UK flags interviews for over 100,000 foreign students

By John Ross. OVER 100,000 non-Europeans planning to study in the UK face interviews for visas, after Home secretary Theresa May announced that the government would ramp up scrutiny of international students.
Ms May said the government would fully implement a pilot program that had seen 2300 prospective students interviewed over the past year.
The move pushes the UK in the opposite direction from Australia, where students from ‘high-risk’ countries no longer face interviews if they intend to study at universities participating in the new ‘streamlined’ visa system.
Ms May said the UK’s interview pilot had showed that abuse was rife. Read more...