Having said that, the new legislation that prevents international students from working part-time while studying and subsequently leaving the UK immediately their course ends in a bid to clamp down on immigration is something I can't
ignore. The government argue that foreign nationals use student visas as a back door to a working visa and thereby staying in the UK indefinitely.
Here is a piece written on Facebook by Teresa Aligbe regarding this new legislation. Below are her thoughts, which I am sure will be echoed around the world, yet ignored. I couldn't have said it any better myself.
"While it in no way affects me, I still find it very irritating the new proposed laws banning International students from working while studying. It's one thing to mandate that they leave once they are done with their studies but to go a step further and say they can't work while they study is incredibly unfair.
Let the conservatives stop whining about International students claiming benefits and profiting off the system like our presence and status as international students isn't incredibly beneficial to the British economy. Take Nigeria for example, we are a 300 million pounds per annum industry in Education alone, not to mention luxury shopping habits and a penchant for high end real estate.I won't even go into the Asians and the Arabs.
We are pouring a lot more in that we are taking out at the end of the day. Part of my irritation stems for the fact that while a number of Internationals can afford to not work throughout the entire course of their study in the UK, it will be an extreme financial strain for many individuals who use the part-time-very-legal jobs they do to take care of their living expenses and ease the financial strain on their families.I mean being able to get a part-time job and earn some money is the only way a significant number of international students can even afford to study in the UK.
The annoying part is that they don't even give better scholarship and we pay for virtually everything almost down to the air we breathe and now you would take away the opportunity for people to even earn an honest living for what?
I think these laws are very antagonistic as I don't see how international students who have 'PART-TIME" legal jobs are in anyway negatively impacting the system.
All this law will do is to ensure that every single non EU student who comes to the UK to study, is from an upper middle class to wealthy background or is struggling to keep their head above water.
How hypocritical of the leadership of a country who is always going on about an increase in the wealth divide in developing countries only to prepare to stand as one of the most proactive facilitators of such a divide.
Before people start passing such legislation, they should sit and analyse how many of those international students are still working in the UK up to 5 years after their graduation and if the numbers are as overwhelming as the skewed one year observation then this might make some sense.
Meanwhile British expatriates will be rolling around Lagos in Chauffeur driven cars, a reality that wouldn't be possible in their own country and yet heavens forbid that non-Brits and non-Europeans enjoy such a luxury in their own countries.
These are the sort of Legislation that bring on anti-British sentiments and I really wonder if that's something Britain can afford given the number of non-EU nationals its educated and is still going to educate. A significant no of whom no doubt, are future leaders of their respective countries.Then again I guess it'll find out.
On the bright side.... I guess Nigerians and other nationals of less developed countries won't have a choice but to ensure progress and development in their home countries".
Teresa Aligbe
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