International Students and Post Study Work – Do employers need them?
Summary 1. In 2011, the last full year in which students could be granted a visa that would allow them to stay on and search for work at any skill level, nearly 50,000 did so. In the first full year (2013) that international students were required to get a graduate level job in order to […]
Business snubs foreign graduates of British universities | Migration Watch UK
In April 2012 the Home Secretary closed the Tier 1 Post Study Work visa – one of the most generous visas of its kind in the world – which allowed all graduates of any subject and any degree class to stay on for two years to search for work. In 2011, the year before it […]
Response To The Royal College Of Nursing’s Report ‘international Recruitment 2015 ‘
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN, the nursing union) yesterday published a report ‘International Recruitment 2015’. The report generated a number of provocative headlines such as ‘New immigration rules will cost the NHS millions’ (The Guardian) or ‘New Immigration Rules will cause NHS chaos’ (Sky News). These headlines are misleading for a number of reasons. […]
The Impact of Immigration on England’s school places shortage
Summary 1. In parts of England there is intense competition for primary school places with too many pupils competing for too few school places. Current projections show that this situation will only grow worse over the next few years. Although there is currently a national surplus of primary school places, by the academic year 2018/19 […]
Migration Watch UK Press Comment on ONS Net Migration Statistics | Migration Watch UK
Responding to today’s net migration figures, Lord Green of Deddington, Chairman of Migration Watch UK, said: “The latest figures are appalling. We need to stop and think where this mass immigration is leading. It points to a probable increase of three million in the UK population over the next five years in the face of […]
Migration Watch Uk Press Comment On Ons Net Migration Statistics
Responding to today’s net migration figures, Lord Green of Deddington, Chairman of Migration Watch UK, said: The latest figures are appalling. We need to stop and think where this mass immigration is leading. It points to a probable increase of three million in the UK population over the next five years in the face of […]
The UK Labour Market – EU Workers by Occupation Skill Level
Summary 1. There are currently 400,000 EU14 workers in the UK who are more likely to be in a skilled occupation than the UK born – 70% compared to 55%. However, there are more than twice that number from the accession countries known as the EU10 of whom almost three quarters are in low skilled […]
75% of East Europeans and 30% of EU14 workers in low skilled work | Migration Watch UK
Three quarters of all East European workers who have arrived since their countries joined the EU are working in low skilled work, so says a Migration Watch UK analysis of the Labour Force Survey. The analysis finds that in early 2014 there were 870,000 workers from the Accession countries of Eastern Europe (including Romania and […]
Migration Watch UK Press Comment on Labour Market Statistics | Migration Watch UK
Commenting on today’s Labour Market Statistics, Alp Mehmet, Vice-Chairman of Migration Watch UK said: “Ten years after accession we still find very large numbers of workers arriving from Eastern Europe, mainly to work in low paid jobs. This puts growing pressure on wages and housing. It simply cannot be allowed to continue.“
MW363 : Article 8 of the Human Rights Convention – A Russian Case | Migration Watch UK
The starting point of this paper is a recent decision of the European Court of Human Rights Muradeli v. Russia [1] ECHR 368. There is something mildly reassuring about finding out that in spite of the current view of Putin’s Russia as a by no means benign dictatorship in a not very convincing democratic disguise, the country remains […]