UK To Ease Visas For Indian Students

02 Feb 2013

Students who want to do their undergraduate and post-graduate studies in various humanities, pure sciences and even professional stream in United Kingdom can now breathe easy. The United Kingdom government has initiated measures to ease the visa norms for students.

“I see things getting clearer and easier for students of India who wish to pursue academic careers in United Kingdom, they can stay there even after their studies at undergraduate levels and get jobs earning annual salaries of not less than 20,000 pounds and move on to the post-graduate studies. There is no limit and no cap on numbers of students entering UK for education,” Ian Fenton, deputy high commissioner of UK in India, told DNA.

It is not just students, but also those professionals who seek intra-company transfers from India to UK, who will be benefited due to the new visa norms.

Asked if the compatibility of Indian undergraduate and post graduate degrees vis-a-vis their UK equivalents, Fenton said, “A lot of work has gone into that and I am sure things will also look brighter on that aspect.”

Niche universities like Oxford and Cambridge have explored possibilities of merging academic programmes with Indian institutes. In one such case, the Oxford University is tied up with the Indian Institute of Science Bangalore.

Source: http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_uk-to-ease-visas-for-indian-students_1795326