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UK politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
9 hours ago

Home Office refuses to exempt exceptional students from tough immigration rules

The Home Office rejected the Foreign Secretary's appeal to exempt Chevening scholars from student visa suspensions for Afghanistan, Cameroon, Myanmar, and Sudan, citing concerns about study route abuse and asylum claims.
fromwww.theguardian.com
5 months ago

Happy, stressed, overwhelmed: Palestinians evacuated from Gaza start their studies in UK

A qualified doctor, he has recently been evacuated from Gaza to begin his studies at Queen Mary University of London on a fully funded, government-backed Chevening scholarship. As well as his work in hospitals, he has been striving for months on behalf of the dozens of Palestinian scholars like himself who have been stranded in war-torn Gaza awaiting evacuation by the British government to take up places in UK universities.
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