admin According to international studies, international students are suffering from Insufficient Document Check Service through the UK study visa.
According to the universities UK, some students are waiting 30 days to check the documents and biometric information.
The UUK, which represents all 136 UK universities, says that it is worried that if Sopra Stria is now struggling, then it should be completely overwhelmed by over 40,000 foreign students coming forward in the autumn period will go.
Complaints have resulted in Sopra Steria offering pop-up services on some campuses but these 15-minute appointments cost £50, payable by the student or university.
This does not account for the space and extra staff that universities will need to provide to allow these appointments to go ahead, says UUK.
Earlier this month, Cardiff University said the pop-up service there would cost them £200,000, though Sopra Steria says the real amount is far lower.
UUK chief executive Alistair Jarvis urged the company to mend its “broken system” before the September surge.
“International students make a huge cultural and economic contribution to the UK. Sopra Steria should be helping to send a more welcoming message to international students, signalling that the UK is open to talented individuals from around the world, as is the case at our universities,” said Mr Jarvis.
Sopra Steria said it is working closely with the Home Office, universities and higher education institutions across the UK to “increase capacity where needed”.
The Home Office said six new locations were opened in May and June across the UK to ensure extra document checking appointments were available.il to complete their studies at public universities in Morocco, mainly because they do not speak French, according to education ministry figures.
To curb the number of university dropouts and equip people with the language requirements needed for jobs, the government proposed reintroducing French as a language of teaching science, mathematics and technical subjects.
Such classes are taught in Arabic up to high school a disconnect with French-dominated higher education.
The adoption of the draft law irked advocates of Arabisation, including the former secretary general of the PJD party, Abdelilah Benkirane, who described the reintroduction of the language of the former colonial power as a betrayal of the “party’s principles.”
Two parliamentarians from a coalition of leftist parties, Omar Balafrej and Mostafa Chennaoui, voted against the draft law after the rejection of their amendments to enshrine a tax on wealth and a progressive inheritance tax to fund education reform.
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