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by nine_zeros 1488 days ago
"I am proud to be launching this new and exciting route as part of our points-based immigration system which puts ability and talent first, not where someone comes from."

Subtle dig across the Atlantic?

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> To qualify, a person must have attended a university that appeared in the top 50 of at least two of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, the Quacquarelli Symonds World University Rankings, or The Academic Ranking of World Universities in the year they graduated.

> The list of eligible universities from 2021, published online by the government, featured 20 US universities, including Harvard, Yale, and MIT.

> There were a further 17 qualifying institutions, including the University of Hong Kong, University of Melbourne, and the Paris Sciences et Lettres University.

> Some academics have voiced their disappointment that no South Asian, Latin American or African universities have been included on the list.

Heh, horrible Priti Patel[1], implementing in the UK Trump's "No shithole countries" policies.

People who graduated from a top 50 university probably won't have a problem finding a job/visa sponsorship anywhere in the world anyway, it makes me wonder how the UK think this will attract them.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/politics/priti-patel

I suspect it's a reference to the EU's Free Movement policy.