LONDON: Business Secretary Sajid Javid said the Government wanted to “break the link” between overseas citizens undertaking higher education courses in the UK and remaining in the country after graduation.
His remarks reflect growing pressure across Whitehall to reduce the numbers of migrants settling in Britain.
What we need to make sure – and we do have this – is that our immigration system allows those from abroad that want to come to Britain to study in our world-class universities, our fantastic colleges to come here,” Mr Javid told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme.
But we’ve also got to have a system that doesn’t allow any abuse when people are using the right to study as a way to achieve settlement in Britain.
“So we’ve got to break the link and make sure it’s focused on people who want to study and then, once they’ve had their studies and completed that, then they leave.”
