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Most of the universities in the United Kingdom have been experiencing reduced issions from international students including Nigerians over the dependant visa ban policy.

UK’s Dependant visa ban
Recall that the UK Home Office under the sacked interior secretary Suella Braverman introduced the dependant visa ban policy that restricted Nigerians and other migrants from bringing family with them starting from January 2024.

The British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Richard Montgomery, while speaking on the policy in June said it was implemented to avoid overburdening the British economy’s s housing infrastructure and to control the inflow of migrants.

Recounting the repercussions of the policy, the universities and business schools said they cannot meet the ission targets for the year 2024, according to a report by 023 Chartered Association of Business Schools (CABS) Annual hip Survey.

“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,” the report said.

“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.

“The survey report adds: ‘There is significant variation in the results by level of study for non-EU international enrolments, as at undergraduate level nearly half of the schools either significantly or moderately exceeded target compared to one-third of schools at postgraduate level.

“At postgraduate level nearly 50% of schools reported recruitment that was either significantly or moderately below target for non-EU international students, compared to 21% at undergraduate level.’”

It added, “Survey respondents reported that they were seeing some of the most significant increases in non-EU enrolment from India, Pakistan, and Ghana. “All these countries had more business schools seeing increases in enrolments for the new academic year than decreases,” notes the report. “Growth in enrolments from Nepal and Saudi Arabia were also cited by several schools. None of the schools cited decreases in enrolments from Nepal, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.”


Nigerian and Chinese foreign students
Affected by the dependant visa restriction policy, the report disclosed that Nigerians and Chinese have reduced their issions to British universities, as it said, “the most frequently cited countries for declining enrolments were China and Nigeria, which could suggest a reversal in the growth in recruitment from these key countries in recent years.

Canada and Australia benefitting from UK’s dependant visa ban
The report further said that the number of international students seeking ission to study Master in Business istration (MBA) has reduced in number, especially from Nigerians and Chinese. It further said these foreign students have turned to Canadian and Australian universities which are now migrant-friendly destinations.

In May 2023, the British government announced that international students would be prevented from bringing dependants with them as of January 2024 (unless students are in postgraduate programmes with a research focus).

The Home Office said at the time that almost half a million student visas were issued in 2022 while the number of dependants of overseas students has increased by 750% since 2019, to 136,000 people. The move to limit accompanying dependents was explicitly done to curb net migration, and was described by the Home Secretary as the “single biggest tightening measure a government has ever done.”

The vast majority of respondents to the CABS survey said that they expect to see negative impacts on non-EU enrolment arising from the policy.

According to the report, “It is anticipated that enrolments for MBA programmes will be most affected as MBA students tend to be older and often wish to bring their family with them. Other post-experience programmes, such as Executive Education programmes sponsored by a company, are also expected to be more adversely impacted due to students being more likely to have children.

“Many [respondents] mentioned that the change has prompted them to reassess their school’s strategy which includes shifting MBAs and Master’s programmes to online delivery if not already offered in this mode, and focusing on growing international student numbers at an undergraduate level instead. There is also a sense that the recruitment of business schools in competitor countries such as Australia and Canada is already benefitting from the UK’s decision to ban visas for dependents of students.”

The revenue impact
The survey found overall that UK universities remain highly dependent on business school tuition revenue, and that, with the downward pressure on non-EU enrolments for this year in particular, the financial outlook for the year ahead is weakening.

“While 28% and 49% of respondents in 2022 stated that they expected significant and moderate increases in income respectively, these numbers have fallen to 9% and 36% in this year’s edition of the survey. 30% of business schools expect a decrease in income compared to only 2% in last year’s survey,” it added.

Source: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2023/11/dependant-visa-ban-uk-varsities-hit-with-low-revenues-as-nigerians-turn-to-canada/

Education is by far faster and cheaper in the UK than Canada. But then, graduates are more likely to get jobs faster in Canada than the UK. I just hope the UK's Home Office knows what they are doing by stopping students from coming in with their dependents.

SoNature:
Education is by far faster and cheaper in the UK than Canada. But then, graduates are more likely to get jobs faster in Canada than the UK. I just hope the UK's Home Office knows what they are doing by stopping students from coming in with their dependents.

Their aim has been achieved ..i.e...to reduce the number entering their country....

Nigerians have invaded every country on Earth, holding top positions in most and by 2050 we will take over all of them and form an empire.

O ga ooo
The rate at which people are leaving the country is very alarming. All thanks to poor governance.

Na wa

FuckingMachine:
Nigerians have invaded every country on Earth, holding top positions in most and by 2050 we will take over all of them and form an empire.

Empire of fraud and embezzlement..... Dey play

They may have a rethink soon. Get set

As e day go. They are still both making money.
In the UK, Nigeria enrolment jumped from 9,000 to almost 120,000 in a space of 3 years.

In Canada, Nigerian enrollment jumped from 18,000 to almost 38,000.

Nawao

..and the cycle repeats itself yet again, same thing UK government has been doing recycled same old rules when it favours them and removing it when it doesn't favor them, let the whole dust settle and they would change back the visa rules to get more monetary influx and once they see too many immigrants they revoke the visas yet again!

Interesting

U and I know say the only Country wey Nigerian youths the benefit from na Canada:

Wọn o ti ri n kan kan

Stopping dependants from ing their spouse is under 1.5 for them

FuckingMachine:
Nigerians have invaded every country on Earth, holding top positions in most and by 2050 we will take over all of them and form an empire.

Meaning nah Africans Oyinbos dey take breef how I which most Africans especially Nigerians can know their worth. If Nigeria's education system is fixed and there are enabling environments for business Nigeria will be way better than most European nations.
Take it or live it Nigeria is a land of fortune that lacks futuristic leaders with the nation interests

E pain them

British are always arrogant about foreigners until they stop coming.

advanceDNA:


Their aim has been achieved ..i.e...to reduce the number entering their country....

They will still complain about unfilled jobs and lack of funds later, just like they were crying over brexit.

These ones never learn.

They v just started. Infact may UK economy crash. Those mofos are lenient to Asians than Africans especially India. The usefulness of Nigeria to UK pas India own. It's India this, India that. They ditched Kemi Badenoch to accept Rishi Sunak abi na Rich Snacks.
Charles no like Nigerians. Wished Lizzy didn't die. That dependant visa wey dem cancel for still dey.
Those same Asians are biting them protesting for the oloriburuku Hamas people.
UK and US ori yin buru o!
Una no see Nigerians that really will not betray you mofos!
Do normal to Nigerians n let ya country v peace.
In UK, it's Indians, Lebanese and Arabs that do fraud .

Ok nah.
I think UK will soon reverse their law against this their dependant of a thing.
They Need ego seriously

Canada cana canada.... the country where Nigerian youth dey benefit na Canada cana canada

Theunbothered:
E pain them

British are always arrogant about foreigners until they stop coming.


They will still complain about unfilled jobs and lack of funds later, just like they were crying over brexit.

These ones never learn.

I think those noise about unfilled jobs are just lies.....
they bring shortage jobs up when they need visa and IHS money....

Better

advanceDNA:


I think those noise about unfilled jobs are just lies.....
they bring shortage jobs up when they need visa and IHS money....

Absolutely on point

FuckingMachine:
Nigerians have invaded every country on Earth, holding top positions in most and by 2050 we will take over all of them and form an empire.

Lol you don't know what you're saying is all Noise....


Is Nigerian Japarian polpulation up to Chinese, Indians, Pakistani in most countries....

keep dreaming

FuckingMachine:
Nigerians have invaded every country on Earth, holding top positions in most and by 2050 we will take over all of them and form an empire.

advanceDNA:


I think those noise about unfilled jobs are just lies.....
they bring shortage jobs up when they need visa and IHS money....

It's not a lie o they were crying about lack of food because all the temporary farm workers from Poland aren't around anymore.

They won't hire Nigerian farmers because they don't want us "dirty blacks" around.

Canada pretending to sleep, and will still pretend to wake up after cashing out just like UK

Then Nigerians will head to Cambodia , then Saudi Arabia or Vietnam for Education

SoNature:


Source: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2023/11/dependant-visa-ban-uk-varsities-hit-with-low-revenues-as-nigerians-turn-to-canada/

If the fees are same, why choose UK over Canada?

loool

Natbrowny:
Canada pretending to sleep, and will still pretend to wake up after cashing out just like UK

Then Nigerians will head to Cambodia , then Saudi Arabia or Vietnam for Education

We are sure that is what they want it.
It was implemented to avoid overburdening the British economy’s s housing infrastructure and to control the inflow of migrants in their country.

Isreal rejects and Canada accepts.

https://www.csmonitor.com/World/2022/0121/Denied-asylum-in-Israel-Eritreans-are-welcomed-by-Canadian-Jews#