Entry Clearances: Overseas Students Debate

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Entry Clearances: Overseas Students

Damian Green Excerpts
Wednesday 27th February 2013

(11 years, 8 months ago)

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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department which (a) universities, (b) colleges of further education and (c) private providers have lost UK Border Agency highly trusted sponsor status since September 2010.

[Official Report, 19 June 2012, Vol. 546, c. 868-69W.]

Letter of correction from Damian Green:

An error has been identified in the written answer given to the hon. Member for Linlithgow and East Falkirk (Michael Connarty) on 19 June 2012.

The lists provided included Leicester College and Princes College School of English. Neither of these sponsors had lost their Highly Trusted Sponsor status and therefore should not have been included.

The full answer given was as follows:

Damian Green Portrait Damian Green
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No universities have lost UK Border Agency Highly Trusted Sponsor Status since September 2010. There have been 33 further education colleges that have lost their UK Border Agency Highly Trusted Sponsor Status since September 2010.

These are:

Abingdon and Witney College

Askham Bryan College

Barnet and Southgate College

Blackburn College

Bolton College

Brooklands College

Carshalton College

City College Brighton and Hove

College of North West London

Coulsdon College

Croydon College

Cumbernauld College

Greenwich Community College

King George V College

Kirklees College

Leicester College

Lowestoft College

Motherwell College

Newham College of Further Education

North West Regional College

Oatridge College

Plumpton College

Reid Kerr College

Sandwell College

South Birmingham College

South Nottingham College

South Tyneside College

Southern Regional College

St Vincent College

Stow College

Varndean College

Worcester Sixth Form College

49 private providers have lost UK Border Agency Highly Trusted Sponsor Status since September 2010.

These are:

A+ English Ltd

Abacus College

Access College London

Azad University (IR) in Oxford

Basil Paterson College

Bedfordshire College

Birmingham International College

Bournemouth Business School International

Cambridge Seminars College

Care in Hand LTD

Christ the Redeemer College

City Banking College Limited

Colchester English Study Centre

ELT-Banbury Ltd

Embassy CES Brighton

English for Everyone Ltd/IH Aberdeen Ltd

English in York

Foyle Language School

Harrow Academy UK

Institute of St Anselm

Lake School of English Oxford

LAL Language Centres (Torbay) Ltd

Language Studies International

Language Studies International, London Central

Le Cordon Bleu Limited

Leicester Commercial College

London Hotel School

London School of Beauty & Make-up

Loxdale English Centre/Swedish Folk High School

Margate Language Centre

Maria Montessori Training Organisation (The)

Midlands Academy of Business & Technology

MM Oxford Study Services

Northumbria School of English

Olivet English Language School

Princes College School of English

Ray Cochrane CIDESCO International Beauty School

Riviera English School

Sassoon Academy

Shane Global Language Centres

Sophies Recruitment Services Ltd

Stafford House School of English

Stanton School of English

Surrey Language Centre

The New School of English Ltd

Twin Towers English College

University of Leicester International Study Centre

University of Wales International Study Centre

Westminster Academy

Some institutions are seeking to reverse these decisions through current representations. However, some institutions will have reapplied for Highly Trusted Status since revocation and some will be able to reapply for Highly Trusted Sponsor Status six months after the decision to remove it.

The correct answer should have been:

Damian Green Portrait Damian Green
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No universities have lost UK Border Agency Highly Trusted Sponsor Status since September 2010. There have been 32 further education colleges that have lost their UK Border Agency Highly Trusted Sponsor Status since September 2010.

These are:

Abingdon and Witney College

Askham Bryan College

Barnet and Southgate College

Blackburn College

Bolton College

Brooklands College

Carshalton College

City College Brighton and Hove

College of North West London

Coulsdon College

Croydon College

Cumbernauld College

Greenwich Community College

King George V College

Kirklees College

Lowestoft College

Motherwell College

Newham College of Further Education

North West Regional College

Oatridge College

Plumpton College

Reid Kerr College

Sandwell College

South Birmingham College

South Nottingham College

South Tyneside College

Southern Regional College

St Vincent College

Stow College

Varndean College

Worcester Sixth Form College

48 private providers have lost UK Border Agency Highly Trusted Sponsor Status since September 2010.

These are:

A+ English Ltd

Abacus College

Access College London

Azad University (IR) in Oxford

Basil Paterson College

Bedfordshire College

Birmingham International College

Bournemouth Business School International

Cambridge Seminars College

Care in Hand LTD

Christ the Redeemer College

City Banking College Limited

Colchester English Study Centre

ELT-Banbury Ltd

Embassy CES Brighton

English for Everyone Ltd/IH Aberdeen Ltd

English in York

Foyle Language School

Harrow Academy UK

Institute of St Anselm

Lake School of English Oxford

LAL Language Centres (Torbay) Ltd

Language Studies International

Language Studies International, London Central

Le Cordon Bleu Limited

Leicester Commercial College

London Hotel School

London School of Beauty & Make-up

Loxdale English Centre/Swedish Folk High School

Margate Language Centre

Maria Montessori Training Organisation (The)

Midlands Academy of Business & Technology

MM Oxford Study Services

Northumbria School of English

Olivet English Language School

Ray Cochrane CIDESCO International Beauty School

Riviera English School

Sassoon Academy

Shane Global Language Centres

Sophies Recruitment Services Ltd

Stafford House School of English

Stanton School of English

Surrey Language Centre

The New School of English Ltd

Twin Towers English College

University of Leicester International Study Centre

University of Wales International Study Centre

Westminster Academy

Some institutions are seeking to reverse these decisions through current representations. However, some institutions will have reapplied for Highly Trusted Status since revocation and some will be able to reapply for Highly Trusted Sponsor Status six months after the decision to remove it.