Money needed

Length of course Where will you study Money needed
Nine months or less Inner London
Full course fees
and
£800 for each calendar month of the course
Nine months or less Outside inner London
Full course fees
and
£600 for each calendar month of the course
More than nine months Inner London
First year of course fees
and
£7,200 to cover living costs for nine months
More than nine months Outside inner London
First year of course fees
and
£5,400 to cover living costs for nine months

LATEST NEWS AND UPDATES

LATEST NEWS AND UPDATES

Government sets out proposals for major reform of the student visa system

07 December 2010
Tougher entrance criteria, limits on work and an end to students staying in the UK to look for a job are just some of the changes proposed by Immigration Minister Damian Green today as part of a shake-up of the student visa system.
Launching a public consultation on the reform of the student entry route to the UK of the points-based system - the Home Office also revealed that 41 per cent of students coming through this route were studying below degree level courses.
Immigration Minister Damian Green said:
'I believe attracting talented students from abroad is vital to the UK but we must be more selective about who can come here and how long they can stay.
'people imagine students to be those who come here for a few years to study at university and then go home - that is not always the case. Too many students coming to study at below degree level have been coming here to live and work, rather than studying. We need to stop this abuse.
'Today's proposals follow a major review of the system, and are aimed at a more selective system and, crucially, reducing the numbers to meet our target of reducing net migration to sustainable levels.'
The consultation will run for 8 weeks, seeking views on a range of measures to reduce the number of students that can come into the UK. Proposals include:
reducing the number of people coming to the UK to study at below degree level;
introducing a tougher English language requirement;
ensuring students wishing to extend their studies show evidence of academic progression;
limiting students' entitlements to work and their ability to bring in dependants; and
improving the accreditation process for education providers, alongside more rigorous inspections.
The Government has committed to making changes across the immigration system to achieve its overall aim of reducing net migration, in addition to the introduction of an annual limit on workers from outside the EU. The student route accounts for two thirds of migrants entering the UK each year which is why it is a key focus for reform.
Damian Green added:
'This Government wants high calibre students with the genuine desire to study to come to our country to come for temporary periods, and then return home. We want to hear views of our proposals from a wide range of people so that our reforms meet this objective.'
The new proposals could see Tier 4 - students coming to the UK under the points- based system - restricted to those studying largely degree level courses and to child students, unless the institution is a Highly Trusted Sponsor. English language competence could become the key indicator of someone's eligibility to complete a higher level course and all Tier 4 applicants will have to pass a secure English language test showing competence at intermediary level B2, a step up from the B1 currently required.
The drive to ensure students return overseas after their course finishes will mean students will have to leave the UK and apply for a new visa to further their studies, and show evidence of progression to a higher course. It will also see the closure of the post-study route under Tier 1.
In addition, the Government will be looking at ways to improve the inspection and accreditation of the education sector, to ensure the courses offered by private institutions of further and higher education are of the highest quality.
You can download the consultation from the right side of this page.
* Please note that the original consultation paper contained an error in the data quoted at 2.1 which has now been corrected.

What is a Tier 4 sponsor?

Adult students

Your education provider

This page explains your education provider's role as your 'Tier 4 sponsor' if you are studying in the UK under Tier 4 (General) of our points-based system.

If a UK education provider wants to teach international students, it must apply to us for a Tier 4 sponsor licence. If we approve the education provider's application, we will give it a licence and add it to our register of Tier 4 sponsors.

As a Tier 4 sponsor, your education provider must comply with a number of duties while you are in the UK. These are described below.

Only a Tier 4 sponsor can assign confirmations of acceptance for studies (CASs) to international students. To score enough points to become a Tier 4 student, you will need a CAS, so you must check that the provider of your chosen course is a licensed Tier 4 sponsor. You can do this by downloading the most up-to-date version of the register of sponsors from the right side of this page.

For more information about CASs, see the Confirmations of acceptance for studiespage.

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• What is a Tier 4 sponsor?

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  To apply as a student under Tier 4, you must have been offered a place on a course of study by a 'Tier 4 sponsor'. This is an education provider which has been approved by us to teach international students.
  If an education provider successfully applies to us for approval, we will give them a sponsor licence and add them to the register of Tier 4 sponsors.
  The register contains the education provider's name and location. It also indicates whether the education provider is a Highly Trusted sponsor, or is a standard sponsor with an A (Trusted) or B (Sponsor) rating. The B rating is a transitional rating, and means that the sponsor is working with us to improve its systems.
  Highly Trusted sponsors have demonstrated the highest levels of compliance with their duties, and in return can offer a wider range of course levels and work placement opportunities.
  You can check whether a UK education provider has a Tier 4 sponsor licence by looking at the register of Tier 4 sponsors. This is updated regularly, and you can download the most up-to-date version from the right side of this page.
  When a Tier 4 sponsor gives an international student an unconditional offer of a place on a course, it assigns a confirmation of acceptance for studies (CAS) to the student.

• Tier 4 sponsor's duties

• If we suspend or withdraw your sponsor's licence before you apply

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  If you apply to us under Tier 4 using a co nfirmation of acceptance for studies (CAS) from a sponsor whose licence is suspended, we will not consider your application.
  If you apply to us under Tier 4 to do a short course to prepare you for your main course of study, we will not consider your application if your CAS shows that the short course will be at a partner institution whose licence has been suspended.
  If we withdraw your education provider's Tier 4 sponsor licence, your CAS will become invalid and you will not be able to use it in an application to us. We will refuse any applications made using an invalid CAS.

How much money do you need?-UK

How much money do you need?

Your money

This page explains how much money you need in order to cover your course fees and your living costs when you apply for an adult student visa under Tier 4 (General) of our points-based system.

The money you will need depends on the length of your course and the location where you will study.

To score 10 points in our points assessment, you must show that you can pay your course fees for your first period of study (or for your next period of study, if you are applying to continue a course) and your living costs for up to nine months.

When you have calculated how much money you will need (see below), the Evidence required section explains how you can prove that you have this amount of money.

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• Money to cover your course fees

• Money to cover your living costs

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  The amount of money you must show to cover your living costs will depend on:
  • where you will be studying in the UK; and
  • whether you have recently been studying in the UK - if you are a current or recent student, we may consider that you have an 'established presence' as a student in the UK .

  Where are you studying?

  We calculate your living costs as:
  • £800 per month if you are spending more than half of your study time in inner London; or
  • £600 per month if you are spending more than half of your study time outside inner London .
  We define 'inner London' as any of the following London boroughs:
  • Camden, Islington, Southwark, City of London, Kensington and Chelsea, Tower Hamlets, Hackney, Lambeth, Wandsworth, Hammersmith and Fulham, Lewisham, Westminster, Haringey or Newham
  If you want to check whether your main site of study is in inner London, you can enter your Tier 4 sponsor's postcode at the About my vote website . If do not know the address of of your main site of study, you must ask your Tier 4 sponsor.

  Do you have an 'established presence'?

  Any student (including a postgraduate doctor or a student union sabbatical officer) has an established presence studying in the UK if they:
  • completed a single course of study lasting at least six months during their most recent permission to stay in the UK, which ended no more than four months before their current Tier 4 application; or
  • are currently studying a single course, of which they have completed at least six months; or
  • are currently studying, and have completed a single course lasting at least six months during their current permission to stay.
  Additionally, the student's current or most recent permission to stay must have been:
  • under Tier 4; or
  • as a student under the former Immigration Rules that were in force until 30 March 2009; or
  • as a postgraduate doctor or dentist.
  A student cannot amalgamate two or more courses to make up the six months' study.
  Your current location (inside or outside the UK) does not affect whether you have an established presence here as a student .

  How much money do you need?

  If you have an established presence, you must show that you have enough money to cover your living costs for:
  • two months; or
  • the length of your course, if this is less than two months.  
  If you do not have an established presence, you must show that you have enough money to cover your living costs for:
  • nine months; or
  • the length of your course, if this is less than nine months.
  If the length of your course includes a part of a month, we will round the time up to the next month. For example, if a course lasts seven months and two weeks, you must show (unless you have an established presence) that you can pay your living costs for eight months.

Salary of an employee who cheated in his exam

Salary of an employee who cheated in his exam

If a student cheats in his exam and passes because of that, and gets a certificate, then he gets work because of that certificate and gets a salary for that work, is this regarded as halaal? Please note that he cannot repeat the exam because he took it many years ago, and everything has changed. What should he do in order to expiate for that?

Praise be to Allaah.

If the student cheated in the exam, and he passed because of that cheating, and got the certificate and worked because of that, and he succeeded in his work, and many years have since passed, then he has to repent and seek forgiveness from Allaah and feel regret for what has happened. For Allaah forgives and the one who repents from sin is like one who has not sinned. 

Shaykh ‘Abd al-Kareem al-Khudayr.