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  • Cost of education visa change - English UK's letter to the chancellor
    22 October 2011

    This week 100 English UK member centres have written to the chancellor asking for an urgent review of immigration policy

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  • Justin Quinn nominated for Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the year awards
    20 October 2011

    We would like to congratulate Justin Quinn, Managing Director of Centre of English Studies on being nominated for the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the year awards in Dublin.

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  • English UK marketing and management conferences - call for speakers
    18 October 2011

    Can you work miracles in marketing or are you a management maestro?  Do you have something important to say to the industry?

    English UK Professional Services announce a 'Call for Speakers' for their prestigious Marketing and Management Conferences.

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  • Government urged to commission an independent review into UK's international education sector
    18 October 2011

    The Government should act to safeguard the UK's £14bn international education sector by commissioning an independent review into its workings, says English UK.

    Chief Executive Tony Millns says the Australian government responded quickly earlier this year to an independent review of their international education sector, streamlining and liberalisation their student visa system among other reforms.

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  • Most Britons do not view international students as immigrants, new research shows
    17 October 2011

    Most British people do not view international students as immigrants and would prefer to see the Government reduce other groups of migrants, according to new research.

    Two thirds of people did not support reducing the numbers of international students coming to the UK. Those who did want to cut student numbers saw little difference between those studying at English language centres, colleges or universities.

    Tony Millns, chief executive of English UK, said that the Government's target of cutting immigration to "the tens of thousands" had created a visa system which was a real deterrent to international students, yet the research showed this did not address the electorate's actual concerns about immigration.

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