The issue of whether or not students should be counted as migrants in official figures has been raised in an influential Parliamentary committee. The Public Accounts Committee was taking evidence on a National Audit Office report into student immigration, which was highly critical of some of the ways in which Tier 4 was implemented.

English UK welcomes a report which recommends that the Government should not class international students as migrants.

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The number of non-accredited private English language colleges which may still be actively recruiting students in breach of immigration rules has fallen by almost 95 per cent both nationally and in London in the past four years, according to English UK research.

Paloma Rodríguez de Rivera is 25 years old and comes from Madrid in Spain. She has completed her IELTS course and is now continuing to attend English Conversation Classes at English UK member centre, Live Language Ltd. Find out more about her experience of living and studying in the UK.