City University wrongly connected with London Met crisis
A translation error by Chinese news agencies has dragged another higher education institution into the London Metropolitan University visa controversy.
A translation error by Chinese news agencies has dragged another higher education institution into the London Metropolitan University visa controversy.

By Alexandra Tilsley, for Inside Higher Ed

The University of East London has set up a hotline for London Metropolitan University students, in a bid to attract those facing deportation in the wake of the visa scandal.
The decision to strip London Metropolitan University of its licence to recruit overseas students has implications 鈥渇or the whole UK sector鈥, according to the vice-president of Universities UK.

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