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Foreign students may be undermining UK higher education, says Cleverly

The Guardian Higher Education

In a letter to the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC), Cleverly asked the body to investigate whether the graduate visa entitlement – allowing international students to work for two or three years after graduating – was failing to attract “the brightest and the best” to the UK.

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Is Poetry Dying?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

We might have to go back to the nineteenth century: to Poe or Tennyson or Emerson or Emma Lazarus or Julia Ward Howe or James Whitcomb Riley or Clement Clarke Moore. I fear that the correct answer might be none of the above. So, what happened? Is it that poet songwriters seized the mantle? Or is something else going on?

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No evidence foreign students are abusing UK graduate visas, review finds

The Guardian Higher Education

Migration Advisory Committee says the risks are low, despite Tory claims the route is being exploited There is no evidence of widespread abuse of the UK’s graduate visa route, the government’s immigration advisers have concluded, despite repeated claims from senior Conservatives that it is being exploited to enter the jobs market.