More than one in ten foreign students are being sponsored by a bogus college, it emerged last night.
The figures, taken from last year, are the equivalent of 80 new students arriving every day with visas from institutions later found to be bogus.
The Tories said this was enough to fill the whole of Oxford University - which has 20,000 students - with 'thousands left over'.
Worrying: The Tories say the new figures show that enough foreign students to fill Oxford University are entering the UK with visas that are later found to be from bogus institutions
Worrying: The Tories say the new figures show that enough foreign students to fill Oxford University are entering the UK with visas that are later found to be from bogus institutions
Figures: Home Office minister Lord West revealed the worrying numbers of students with bogus visas
Figures: Home Office minister Lord West revealed the worrying numbers of students with bogus visas
The revelations will cast worrying new doubts over the state of the Government's border controls.
They came as the Chief Inspector of the UK Border Agency, John Vine, warned the Government's target of concluding 90 per cent of asylum cases within six months by December 2011 is 'unachievable'.
Any college or institute of learning must have a licence from the Home Office if it wants to accept overseas students.
A 'bogus college' is one that has never had such a licence or one where the licence has been removed following an inspection.
In the House of Lords yesterday Home Office minister Lord West said that between April and December 2009, 1,530 students were studying at a college whose licence was subsequently revoked, and 27,715 at one whose licence was later suspended.
This gives a total of 29,245 students allowed into the UK on visas from bogus colleges, the Tories said. In 2008-09, 236,470 student visas were granted to foreigners, suggesting more than one in ten were from bogus institutions

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This gives a total of 29,245 students allowed into the UK on visas from bogus colleges, the Tories said. In 2008-09, 236,470 student visas were granted to foreigners, suggesting more than one in ten were from bogus institutions

Not bad at all, Who owns the bogus institution? where is the money those student paid go to(british economy). Lord Luggard and coy, did they come to africa with any visa talkless of bugus. They thought us migration they should leave with and stop whinning.