[OkayBuddy44]

There are "colleges" that are literally just fronts for student visas. Canada just uncovered 10,000 fake student visas; the Australian government recently closed 150 colleges that don't even actually exist.

All of these 'students' are now illegally in these countries, and realistically most will not be caught and deported. Perhaps the worst part is that even at the scale of this fraud, it pales in comparison to the mind-boggling number of students being legally permitted entry to these countries, most of them from India.

[jappgar]

Canada "uncovered" fake colleges and worker scams only after it became socially acceptable to question official immigration policies. Now that the Indian government is literally murdering Canadian citizens, it's a become a huge issue.

[andygh]

Canada and Australia, obviously, have different compliance regimes.

The expectations from the Home Office for Level 4 Visas are quite well documented and have very specific conditions that education providers must show to satisfy, e.g. the students who hold these Visas attend all their classes. A provider (University) can have their ability to sponsor Visas removed if their compliance isn't adequate.

Part of the reasons Universities in the UK record attendance at all is because of the compliance regime from the Home Office. The story therefore is that these universities are inadequately complying.

[gadders]

I don't think the UK was ever as bad as Canada, but I think it could have been heading that way.