“Turning inwards, going backwards”:
new student immigration rules
Dezeen Wire: Tom Campbell of BOP Consulting has published an article on the company’s culture and creative industries blog slamming the UK government’s new student immigration rules as “a potential disaster for the UK’s creative and design sector.”
The new regulations are due to come into effect in April and mean non-EU students will no longer have the right to apply to stay in the UK upon completing their studies, instead returning home and “taking their talents, intellectual property and entrepreneurial energies with them.” Read the full article here.
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