In January the Canadian government EXTENDED their post-study work offer for international master's students, allowing graduates to stay in Canada for THREE years after graduating. So using Canada as a case study when arguing the UK should cut it's post study work offer is ... strange. https://getgis.org/news/canada-extends-work-permit-for-masters-students-to-3-years
Canada's cap is also only for undergraduate students. It's been introduced because their universities have taken liberties with 'franchising', setting up low-quality franchise campuses to heavily recruit undergraduate students who wouldn't have the academic credentials to get into a regular university. Franchising in the UK might have issues, but nowhere near the scale seen in Canada.
The government should push universities to double the number of training places for doctors and nurses whom we need in the U.K. and fill at least 75% of those with U.K. passport holders. Them tie in the student loan to employment in the NHS with 20% of their loan wiped for each full time worked year of NHS employment so that every qualifying doctor or nurse gives back 5 years of full time NHS employment
Universities would be very happy to train more doctors - the UK government stops them from doing this by imposing a cap on the number of students they can admit to medical degrees. It does this because the cost of educating a single student is very high: the £9,250 tuition fee for home students covers just over a quarter of it. The government tops up the rest via a 'teaching grant' to universities. The Treasury has kept numbers of places for medical students low to try to save money. This has not really worked.
Last year, the government announced a new NHS workforce plan (it didn't have one previously), which will modestly increase the number of places - probably not by enough to keep up with population growth or increased churn in the NHS. The time to do all this was a decade ago.
My understanding (perhaps erroneous) of the work visa was that it was partly intended to attract "students" to fill the huge gap in care home staffing levels? If this is correct, does the Govt. have a system to adequately check the credentials of those "students"? My personal experience of the sudden huge influx of Africans as care home staff suggests that a significant proportion of them would not be capable of post-degree, or even degree level study. Going by the UK's dubious immigration control history, it would not be surprising if these checks were less than rudimentary, such is the desperation to fill this void (greatly exacerbated since Covid).
In January the Canadian government EXTENDED their post-study work offer for international master's students, allowing graduates to stay in Canada for THREE years after graduating. So using Canada as a case study when arguing the UK should cut it's post study work offer is ... strange. https://getgis.org/news/canada-extends-work-permit-for-masters-students-to-3-years
Canada's cap is also only for undergraduate students. It's been introduced because their universities have taken liberties with 'franchising', setting up low-quality franchise campuses to heavily recruit undergraduate students who wouldn't have the academic credentials to get into a regular university. Franchising in the UK might have issues, but nowhere near the scale seen in Canada.
The government should push universities to double the number of training places for doctors and nurses whom we need in the U.K. and fill at least 75% of those with U.K. passport holders. Them tie in the student loan to employment in the NHS with 20% of their loan wiped for each full time worked year of NHS employment so that every qualifying doctor or nurse gives back 5 years of full time NHS employment
Universities would be very happy to train more doctors - the UK government stops them from doing this by imposing a cap on the number of students they can admit to medical degrees. It does this because the cost of educating a single student is very high: the £9,250 tuition fee for home students covers just over a quarter of it. The government tops up the rest via a 'teaching grant' to universities. The Treasury has kept numbers of places for medical students low to try to save money. This has not really worked.
Last year, the government announced a new NHS workforce plan (it didn't have one previously), which will modestly increase the number of places - probably not by enough to keep up with population growth or increased churn in the NHS. The time to do all this was a decade ago.
My understanding (perhaps erroneous) of the work visa was that it was partly intended to attract "students" to fill the huge gap in care home staffing levels? If this is correct, does the Govt. have a system to adequately check the credentials of those "students"? My personal experience of the sudden huge influx of Africans as care home staff suggests that a significant proportion of them would not be capable of post-degree, or even degree level study. Going by the UK's dubious immigration control history, it would not be surprising if these checks were less than rudimentary, such is the desperation to fill this void (greatly exacerbated since Covid).