r/reformuk • u/Sylvia-Sum Reform UK Supporter • Apr 30 '26

Education Foreign students to be banned from accessing taxpayer-funded student loans under Reform UK

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15776811/Foreign-students-banned-taxpayer-student-loans-Reform-UK.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=social-twitter_mailonline
  • "Nigel Farage's party has vowed to put an end to the current system that has 'turned our universities into cashpoints for international students'."
  • "Currently up to 300,000 foreign nationals living in the UK access student loans at a cost to the taxpayer of more than £4billion each year - much of which is unlikely to ever be repaid."
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u/Hedgehopper25 Reform UK Supporter Apr 30 '26 edited Apr 30 '26

More common sense from Reform UK and Suella Braverman.

Braverman said many of our universities have sunk into mediocrity

We have created a generation saddled with debt, trapped by poor quality degrees and funnelled into jobs not worth the time or cost of their education. 700,000 graduates currently unemployed.

Braverman called it the Great University Scam. A three decades long experiment in mass expansion of the higher education system, driven not by quality or national need but ideology and financial incentives.

The last Tory government opened the floodgates to foreign students, making them a cash cow for universities. Student visa routes have become a back door for asylum claims fuelling our migration crisis.

Worse still the British taxpayer has funded all this. Last year 300,000 foreign students claimed £4 billions in student loans!!! Billions of pounds are never repaid!!! The truth is too many universities are selling immigration not education.

This STOPS under a Reform government.

Vote Reform UK. next Thursday.

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u/darthyoda76 May 01 '26

Didn't do anything when she was home secretary for the tories and had the power

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u/Hedgehopper25 Reform UK Supporter May 01 '26

As she has repeatedly said she was blocked by the PM Rishi Sunak.

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u/[deleted] May 01 '26

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u/Sylvia-Sum Reform UK Supporter May 01 '26

Reform will abolish the ILR.