Quote Originally Posted by mikemallorca View Post
I dont think students should be allowed to work at all, if they can not afford to study here then they should not come... UK and European students have more of a right to work in term time and if these jobs are taken by overseas students it is not fair......... Times are hard now and it has to be jobs for UK passport holder first,, then EU passport holders.....I think there should be a major overhaul of what students can do... Most of the problems come from pakistan, and the amount of fake schools in the UK has grown..... If they are told that they can not work under any circumstances, and have to have at least 10k in there bank accounts... the work will be available for UK students, its hard enough for them, they have to pay back loans etc....and the foreign students go home, and never pay back the loan,s its a completly unfair playing field
The new system requires you to have somewhere in the region of 10K in your account for 30 days prior to applying, but the there is no real checks to see if you can actually afford to spend that money or if it is just borrowed. Upping the amount may reduce the number applying, but not stop the problem.

Stopping international students working totally would just make it more likely for some students to work illegally.