Important news for international students about brown’s student visas review!

“Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced a review of student visas to consider giving them only to foreign students on degree and postgraduate courses. For full story visit http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/oxfordshire/8373749.stm73749.stm”

International Student! Be aware! Your visa application might be affected by Brown’s review of student visas. If the review will come in action, the international students who wish to come in UK for English study, can’t get visa. If you are dreaming to come UK for studying English course, your dream will be remain as dream, may not be true. You have to wait until beginning of January to see whether this review will come into action or not.

If the review will come into action, the applicants who wish to come to study a course followed by pre-session English language, may be affected. So, if you are planning to study a graduate or postgraduate course in UK, you should start now for English Proficiency Test preparation such as IELTS. If you will apply to a course followed by pre-session English, your visa application may be refused.

You should be rationale and keep some patient. You needn’t be worry because it is not the ending of Tier 4 Point Based System. Tier 4 PBS will be still active.

Job Finding Tips for Tier 4 Students

In these days to find part time jobs in UK is quiet difficult. Due to the economic crisis a lot of large industries went bankrupt, so thousands of UK citizens are unemployed. International students, who are from non-EU countries, have to face huge competition with UK and EU students.

After launching Tier 4 Point Based System, thousands of students have come in UK for study and the same ratio are still coming. Most students dream to work part time for earning living cost and next year tuition fees. I am wonder to know that students from Bangladesh, India, Nepal & Pakistan have come by lending loan on collateral basis. Obviously, they are willing to earn some money to pay back their loan.

I just want to focus to those students who are already in UK in this post. I am going to provide here some advice which may lead them to get part time job successfully. Please follow the steps below to get tips:

1. First of all analyze what training, experience, skill and talents you have. After that try to find a volunteering position. You may find positions at some reputed organization such as British Red Cross, British Heart Foundation. Side by side, go to Job Centre Plus (www.jobcentreplus.gov.uk) and apply for National Insurance Number (NI). Every Employer needs NI Number to accept you on the job. 
2. After volunteering for 2 weeks you may ask your line manager or the supervisor for providing references. Your performance would be the key points to give you reference. So, be careful, loyal and dedicated while volunteering. 
3. Then make a CV. The CV must be one page and must clearly stated about your information, objectives, hobbies, interest, education, training, skill, experience and references. Most employers require at least 2 references. One might be given by your college representative who knows about you and another one must be work reference which can be given by your manager of the organization where you are volunteering. If you provide international work reference, you may not get any reply from the employer for your application. 
4. After making short, brief and complete CV, you may start finding jobs. You may find job vacancies to the local news papers and go to Jobcentre Plus web site. I will post some top rated job sites soon.
5. You may also go around the market, where you can see part time vacancies on the glasses and wall of the shops and hotels. When you will drop your CV, it would be better to hand it to the manager directly. Otherwise the staff may not deliver your CV to the Manager. Some vacancies must require filling up the application form. Get the application form and fill up clearly. Your skill and ability can be easily evaluated by your way of filling up the form.
6. It would be the best idea to note when and where you drop your CV. You may write in a note book about the name, address, phone number, date, job closing date and the person’s name that you gave your CV for the job. If you won’t hear within 3 days of the closing date, you may inquire to the organization. 
7. If your application was unsuccessful and you hear from your employer then you may give a call to them and ask what weakness made you to reject for the post. So, you couldn’t repeat such for the next application.

If you properly follow up these tips, you may definitely get the part time job soon. Good luck!

Tips to International Students for selecting best colleges in UK

It is important to spend some time for selecting best colleges rather than jumping on cheap colleges. Most international students especially from China, Nepal, India, Pakistan and Bangladesh did the mistake on selection of college. My research showed that all of them see the rating of the college to select the college. Only rating A is not enough that the college’s Tier 4 License lasts longer and their qualification will be valuable in future.

One thing you should keep in mind is that you can never earn money to make home, to buy car and to repay loan in your country while studying cause you are just allowed to work 20 hours per week and your earning might be enough just for your living cost.

It would be better to use the following mechanism to choose college so you will never be affected of suspension and cancellation of license of your selected college. The tier 4 point based system migrant policy clearly states that in case of tier 4 license cancellations of your selected sponsor/college, you should leave UK or you may try another licensed sponsor by paying tuition fees.

You may review the following tips:

1. You must choose the sponsor which is not profit oriented. It means you may choose government funded or operated colleges and universities. If you choose profit oriented sponsor, it might focus on making more profit rather than providing quality education. You may not have access on proper facilities or you should pay separate amount for facilities that you will get. Such sponsors/colleges often break immigration rule because they will just focus on a large number of recruitment. Sometimes that might be more than their actual capacity. It is true that they offer cheap tuition fee to attract large number of students.
2. Don’t go through only for rating A. The A rating will be provided when the college or sponsor can prove to UK Border Agency that they have proper facilities to provide for their agreed number of students. For example: College A and College B are both A rated colleges. College A can offer admission to 10000 and be able to provide facilities to such number of students. And College B can just offer admission for 500 students. If College B recruit 700 students where as his facilities are just enough for 500 students, definitely it can’t provide quality education as promised. While checking by UKBA, its sponsorship might be suspended or cancelled.
3. If you provide some time to review tier 4 migrant guidance, you can clearly get information that you should complete your course on time, if you will fail, you should return back to your home country. If your college is profit oriented and offer you cheap tuition fees, they may choose lecturers at cheap pay rate and might not be highly qualified, they may provide limited facilities and they may operate large size classes. These all factors may lead you to get fail to complete your course successfully on time. 
4. If your course requires progression to another institution or universities, you may not get admission on the progression level because the universities won’t take admission more than their allowed numbers. So, what will you do at that time?
5. Most employers see where you have completed your course rather than seeing what course you have been completed. If you have completed your course from recognized institution then they trust you and there will be high change to get after study employment and vice versa. Even for part time job while studying the reputation of college does highly mater. So, choose best college and successfully complete your education and get bright future. Don’t see present only, you have to think about your future.

So, rather than hearing sweet dream by your education consultant, try to find the consultant who gives you fact information and can guide you for quality courses at top rated colleges and universities.

If you need help to choose best college, I am pleased to provide free service for selection of best college and admission to international Students but you must be from non-EU countries. If you want my assistant to select best college and get admissions in this college, send your scan copy of passport, academic documents, IELTS score including your CV at tier4uk@yahoo.com. I will assist you to admit at your prefer course or suggest you the course which may have good demand in future.