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The British government has an overhaul in its of issuing student visas. U.K. Home Secretary Theresa May has said the for student visas into Britain need to be much . This means a reduction of 25 per cent in the number of visas given to students. Ms May said new rules are being introduced to stop people trying to entry into the country for dishonest reasons. She said student visas were being and "too many were here to work and not to study". She told the British government that the of student visas was a "symbol of a broken and abused immigration system,” and that the rules would be "in the best of legitimate students.”

Many in politics, education and have condemned the new law. Opposition Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said it would Britain’s economy. She pointed out that the teaching English was worth $9 billion a year. Ms. Cooper the government was trying to keep political promises about cutting immigration numbers, rather than to the visa system. In a fiery , she said that Ms May should act "in the interests of a , controlled migration policy, rather than taking with an important export industry". University spokeswoman Sally Hunt said: "The government's student visa are short-sighted and risk sending out the worrying message that the UK is for business."