VisitScotland chief criticises foreign graduates plan

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The chief executive of VisitScotland has hit out at Conservative plans to deport foreign students as soon as they have graduated.

Malcolm Roughead told The Scotsman he strongly disagreed with a pledge made by Home Secretary Theresa May to crack down on immigration by sending foreign graduates back to their home countries.

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1. Looks like a bone-headed move to me.

I have a daughter-in-law who just graduated from the University of Glasgow last year. I don't see any reason to kick them out of the country as soon as they graduate.

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2. As though being a student was a crime, or something...

This is really nasty toward a bunch of very hardworking, committed people with much to contribute.

On a more pragmatic level, it will cause BIG problems for universities and colleges: rightly or wrongly, they depend quite a lot on the income from (overcharged!) foreign students, a lot of whom will now go elsewhere.

There seems to be no reason for any of it, except that Theresa May wants to out-UKIP UKIP.