Amelia Gentleman discusses the immigration scandal in which the Home Office has accused 34,000 international students of cheating in English language tests. And: Magid Magid, the 29-year old lord mayor of Sheffield, who is stepping down to run as a Green MEP
In 2014, a BBC documentary drew attention to fraud in the UK’s international student visa system, including cheating in English language tests at two centres. The Home Office concluded that around 34,000 of the 58,458 students who had taken the test between 2011 and 2014 had cheated.
A government watchdog has launched an investigation into the Home Office’s decision to cancel or curtail the visas of those it accuses of cheating, as well as removing more than 1,000 people from the UK. MPs are warning the scandal could be “bigger than Windrush”.
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