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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-19419395

Interesting news, I went to this University (Holloway Road campus) years ago, and as Londoners know, the place is a mini-naija. You hear Yoruba and Igbo being spoken in every corner. Sure more than 50% of the foreign students that are facing deportation are from Nigeria.
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More than 2,000 students potentially face deportation after a London university had its licence to teach and recruit overseas students revoked.

London Metropolitan University has had its right to sponsor students from outside the EU revoked, and will no longer be allowed to authorise visas.

Ministers say the university is not tracking course attendance and that many students have no right to be here.

A task force has been set up to help students affected by the decision.

It means that some 2,000 overseas, non-EU, students have 60 days to find an alternative institution to sponsor them or face deportation.

Announcing the move on Wednesday night, the UK Border Agency said London Metropolitan University had "failed to address serious and systemic failings" identified six months ago.


The Higher Education Funding Council for England said it was an "unprecedented situation which relates only to London Metropolitan University" - which has a total of 30,000 students.

It added: "It will not affect existing or future international students at other universities. No other UK university has had its licence to sponsor international students revoked, and UKBA's decision does not in any way reflect concern about licensing arrangements at other universities in the UK."


The university's Highly Trusted Status (HTS) was suspended last month while the UKBA examined alleged failing, preventing it from being allowed to recruit overseas students.

Immigration Minister Damian Green said London Metropolitan University had failed in three particular areas:

More than a quarter of the 101 students sampled were studying at the university when they had no leave to remain in this country
A "significant proportion" of checked files found "no proper evidence" that the mandatory English levels had been reached
Universities must know that students are turning up for their course and are not using a student visa to enter the country for work, but more than half of the records sampled suggested the university "just didn't know" whether students were turning up for classes or not.
A statement posted on the university's website on Wednesday read the implications of the revocation are "hugely significant and far-reaching".

"Our absolute priority is to our students, both current and prospective, and the university will meet all its obligations to them."

'Panic and heartbreak'
It added it had already started to work with the UKBA, Hefce, the NUS and its own students' union to tackle the issues.

Although there have been other suspensions, no other UK university has been fully stripped of its ability to recruit overseas students.

The NUS has contacted Prime Minister David Cameron and Home Secretary Theresa May to "express anger at the way that decisions have been made in recent weeks and to reiterate the potentially catastrophic effects on higher education as a £12.5bn per year export industry for the UK".

NUS president Liam Burns said: "This decision will create panic and potential heartbreak for students not just at London Met but also all around the country.

"This heavy-handed decision makes no sense for students, no sense for institutions and no sense for the country. This situation and the botched process by which the decision was arrived at could be avoided if international students were not included in statistics of permanent migrants."

Mr Burns added the decision could have been limited to future students rather than covering existing ones.

'Last resort'
But the UKBA said allowing London Metropolitan University to continue to sponsor and teach international students "was not an option".

It said it had been working with the university since it identified failings six months ago.

It added: "These are problems with one university, not the whole sector. British universities are among the best in the world - and Britain remains a top-class destination for top-class international students.

"We are doing everything possible, working with Universities UK, to assist genuine students that have been affected."

Universities Minister David Willetts has announced a task force to help overseas students affected by the decision, which will include UKBA and the NUS.

He said: "It is important that genuine students who are affected through no fault of their own are offered prompt advice and help, including, if necessary, with finding other institutions at which to finish their studies."

But Universities UK President Professor Eric Thomas said there were alternative ways of addressing UKBA's concerns and that the "revocation of a university's licence should only be a decision of last resort".

It added that the move would cause anxiety and distress to many legitimate international students.

University and College Union warned that the move would have an impact on future recruitment of foreign students.

Its general secretary Sally Hunt said: "No matter how this is dressed up, the damaging message that the UK deports foreign students studying at UK universities will reach all corners of the globe."

Jimatex: is high tym christians will fight back

If christians fight back like you say, is this not disobeying God and the bible. Didn't the bible God said 'pray for those who despitefully use you, turn the other cheek, dont be afraid of those who kill only the body but cannot kill the soul, if they take your robe, give them your cloak as well (or something like that)'

brownlord: You see this animal making mockery of such a terrible situation, i blame GEJ, i blame the govt. i said it before and am saying it again, boko haram is too small a group to hold nigeria to randsom, i sware if the police cant, 100 cultist from Ekpoma can wipe the entire boko haram i can belt my life on that

what does this have to do with mockery. It is just simple questions. I'm guessing........ you dont have answers to them

born2fuck: he will surely be blessed, the eye for an eye will resolve nigeria, bomb for bomb, fire for fire, christian vs muslims or southern vs northern, either way it goes is cool with me

but this is disobeying God and the bible. Didn't the bible God said 'pray for those who despitefully use you, turn the other cheek, dont be afraid of those who kill only the body but cannot kill the soul'

ebamma: Blessed are those christians, who are persecuted or murdered by bokoharam for the shall be called sons of God

Would you like to be blessed as well? So that God can call you this beloved son

To the christian apologetics, can you please shed your thoughts on these:
- Did God allow this to happen?
-Since the blood of jesus protects from evil & psalm 23 guarantees protection from evil; why did it fail the 15 dead?
- 'God is always in control' - was God in control in this situation?
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doctokwus: Just as somebody predicted earlier,d sycophants av come out claiming credit 4 T.B Joshua;wonder wen his game wud b found out 4 what it is;after his colorado edited video was exposed,someone wants to also edit dis one.
Attah mills R.I.P

No mind them. Video editing go start now
80% of African presidents are between the age of 60-70
3% are above 75
what is the probability that one of dem go die before the year runs out.
Go do your maths. If na man of God, he should name the president and date of death, even month of death will do. 'Before the end of this year' and we are in January!!!

RIP sir!

Now let's wait for another topic shortly from TB Joshua followers that 'T.B. Joshua prophesy his death last week'

May the lord bless the child in her womb
that child will be a testimony to the lord
that child will not be the kind of child that will cry 'mummy, I want to drink small stout'

Na wa ooh, shey na because Zambia win Nations cup? Now they are flexing muscle!
I no blame dem sha, Na siasia I blame, that we no even qualify

;DOmo, why u dey pour sand for the man Garri now? Prophet must chop na.

dekung: @Op,
get yourself some empty beer and cocacola cans, fill them with saw dust, attach two wires to the cans (blue, red and green wire), connect the other end of the wire to some AA size batteries. Couple the wires, batteries and cans to a spoilt wrist watch. This is an amaateur IED but it sure cannot detonate. Drop the IED carelessly somewhere arround the church making sure to expose a little part of the battery and can. I can bet it with you that once the church sees this, they wont hold service for a long time.
PS:
Dont get caught

hahaha
The fear of Boko Haram is the beginning of wisdom!

Jenwitemi, I like you, you no dey hide mouth talk, you just dey slam am for ground as it is.

Jenwitemi: The point of Christianity is to keep people blind, in darkness and in bondage so that they can't know their left from their right. The more victims it can garner, the more people will be walking on this planet totally blind and in bondage. That is the point and the purpose of christianity and it's likes.

All these vague generalised prophesies dumb people fall for!!!
Abegi, if God is really showing this man, then God would have told him the state, and that it is a Batman movie cinema, abi God no know where exactly the event will happen, or God specifically intended to hide the facts of the event from him?

Ok if na so, I will prophesy as well: Some where in Asia before the end of this year, I see a catastrophy happening with a mode of transportation, train or aircraft, many people will die.

Mark this date down ooo, that I made this prophecy, if it happens, then I change my name to Prophet Idi-amin. Praise the Lord

Just bear it, I know it's not easy but nothing you can do.
If you go to the pastor or church to complain, they will call you the anti-chirist, and claim you are trying to stop the movement of 'the spirit'

people still dey wish this man long life!
At this rate, Mandela go beat Metusellah record ooo

The fear of Boko Haram is the beginning of wisdom.

I read in an earlier post, someone wrote: 'Christianity is not a religion, it is a way of life'
Everytime I hear a christian make this stetment I go just dey laugh.
Anytime you tell someone to believe in someone and follow a set of laws and rules, and if you don't the someone who you refuse to believe in will send you to hell forever to burn! There is no way you can dance around this, that is called a RELIGION.

To add to the list:
When you tell a christian of the ugly scenes in the old testament such as God authorising genocide, murder, blood sacrifices etc, I've heard christians claim we are in a new & better covenant, the blood of jesus has done away with the old covenant and we don't have to follow the laws and rules in the old testament. But isn't Malachi 3 also in the old testament and before the blood of jesus was shed? so the blood should have done away with Malachi 3 and tithes as well

This is superrrr stooooory !!! This is superrrr stooooory !!!

Who wants o bet? When their names are released, I can guarantee they will be from the EASTERN part.

I no mention any tribe oooo, before they come bash me. I just say EAST, it could be east Africa, East Timor, Eastern europe. East na east

Nigerians!!!
Typical no brainers

First of all, I've never heard of all these things written in this article, so I can say I agree or disagree with this God particle stuff.
but typical low IQ Nigerians will just start raining abuses on the article and the writer, and they haven't gone to verify if the info is valid or true.
No wonder Botha said blacks are genetically intellectually inferior - there's plenty of evidence on Nairaland to support this

ICC is just a kangaroo dummy court.
Sure this dude commited war crimes, just like Charles Taylor also. But both were back by the US who provided weapons to the war criminimals
US Govt from the days of Bush, and even Obama have authorized drones dropping missiles killing women and children in Pakistan for ages, yet the ICC no summon George Bush to The Hague to answer questions of crime against humanity

Which kin joke be dis,
You go kill person ooo
Don't you there are people with high blood pressure and heart disease on nairaland?

Wonders shall never end ooo
Christopher!!!
First I doubt it's his child, not because of lack of resemblance, but because this man is probably sterile, impotent or Gay. after spending 17 years with first wife, no child, 4.5 years second wife (that had 3 previous kids)- no child.
It's likely Okotie probably beeped this lady, but not get her pregnant, but she's trying to get paid.

Level Don Change !!!

It's simple, hell is a man-made doctrine, created as a control tool.
The eteranl creator must be very limited if he has to punish you.

The creator created human beings in his/her image. But humans have turned it around and created God in our image, as if the creator behaves like us. When someone disobeys or offends them, we get them back, so we have fixed the creator into that image: if you don't obey the commandments and believe in his son, he will get pissed off and punish you by sending you somewhere where you will burn forever. The creator is not like us.