Most international students including Nigerians have refused to pitch their admission tents in most of the universities in the United Kingdom....CONTINUE READING
Lifestyle Nigeria reports that this was due to the dependant visa ban policy established by the UK Home Office under the sacked interior secretary Suella Braverman.
Braverman introduced the dependant visa ban policy that restricted Nigerians and other migrants from bringing family members with them starting from January 2024.
In June, the British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Richard Montgomery, while reacting to the policy, said it was implemented to avoid overburdening the British economy’s housing infrastructure and to control the inflow of migrants.
UK universities and business schools are already bearing the consequences of this policy, as a report by the 023 Chartered Association of Business Schools (CABS) Annual Membership Survey revealed that the institutions cannot meet the admission targets for the year 2024.
The report said, “In what appears to be an early signal of the impact of an important change to UK visa policy, nearly half (44%) of the country’s business schools are reporting that they will miss their non-EU recruitment targets this year.
“When reporting on performance against non-EU recruitment targets for the 2023/24 academic year, nearly three in ten responding institutions (29%) said they had either significantly or moderately exceeded their goal. Another 27% said they had met their recruitment target.
“But the remaining 44% said that they fell short of their recruitment goals, of which 22% reported being “significantly below” their target enrolment.”
