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Visas: Overseas Students

Asked by Tom HayesLabourHome OfficeTabled Answered 18 September 2024UIN 5243

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of using the Accreditation UK scheme for institutions providing courses to students on a Sponsored Study visa.

Answered by Seema Malhotra

International students using the student and child student routes must be sponsored by an education provider that holds a Student sponsor licence.

Education providers wishing to sponsor international students must obtain and maintain a Home Office Sponsor licence to do so and must be assessed for educational quality by an Educational Oversight body. We keep our immigration policies and Student sponsorship system under constant review.

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