On the first day of events in the London para-Olympic games the UK Border Agency (UKBA) has stripped the London Metropolitan University (London Met) of it's ability to offer places to foreign (non-EU) students due to concerns that the university was not doing enough to make sure foreigners being granted places were genuine students rather then economic migrants. Apart from the obvious discussion about immigration this news will cause a lot of confusion. After all "London Met" could easily be taken to mean London's Metropolitan Police or one of London's Metropolitan areas (boroughs). Being stripped of the ability to grant access to migrants could be interpreted as the police being told to be more careful about keeping secrets and not leaking things to the press. It could also be interpreted as my London Metropolitan area (Croydon) being instructed to make my life more difficult by reducing my level of access or it could be Croydon being told to call off their trouble makers.
The only thing that is clear about the story is that the disruption that has been caused to foreign students at London Met who will now have to either find another university place or leave the country is a reference to the disruption that will have to be caused at the local level in order to put right my grandmother's case. This disruption is being used as an excuse as to why it can't be done but I don't find that excuse valid. After all at every stage it was clear what the risk would be.
13:55 on 30/8/12.
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