MPs propose compromise over third-county students

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MPs propose compromise over third-county students

The House education committee plans to propose to the government to introduce sanctions on colleges whose third-country students abandon them as a compromise to a visa clampdown imposed a few months ago in a bid to curb asylum applications.

Colleges have been trying since to overturn the decision, which they claimed had catastrophic effects, caused job losses and lost state revenue.

House education committee chairman, Disy MP, Kyriacos Hadjiyiannis, said they had achieved a convergence which aimed at giving a new boost to college education.

“We think the proposal … is a good convergence, which...

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