Indians are welcome to study and work in Great Britain, says UK’s Minister for Science and Universities Jo Johnson even as Europe grapples with issues on migrants. In an exclusive interview during a visit to India to announce the ‘UK-India Year of Education, Research and Innovation for 2016’, he says that going to study in… Read More »

What is? A Sponsor is an organization based in the UK, who is willing to hire foreign nationals to work for them in the UK. According to the UK Government’s website, a foreign national is a person who does not belong to the European Economic Area (EEA) and Switzerland. How to get a Sponsor License… Read More »

International tuition fees for the 2016-17 academic year are set to rise, marking a 30% increase in tuition fees for a non-laboratory based subject since 2012, when the cost stood at £12,600. From next year, incoming international non-EU students who study a non-laboratory based subject will be asked to pay £16,500, while those studying a… Read More »

A new report Determining Labour and Skills Shortages and the Need for Labour Migration in Ireland published today (Wednesday, 25 November 2015) by the ESRI, finds that the Irish employment permits system now increasingly responds to knowledge about labour market shortages and surpluses. The study explores the extent to which research on the Irish labour… Read More »

UK may soon introduce a first-of-its-kind visa only for Indian students which will allow them to work for two years after passing out of a British university. In what is great news for Indian students planning to study in the UK, London’s charismatic mayor Boris Johnson, who is pitted to be prime minister David Cameron’s… Read More »

LONDON:  London mayor Boris Johnson has proposed a new Commonwealth work visa for Indian students which will allow them to work for two years after graduating from a British university which he hopes will help address the sharp decline in foreign students coming to study in the UK. As part of proposals he has forwarded… Read More »