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• ‘97% seemed absurd’: Labour’s Stephen Timms on the English test scandal that wrecked lives

  13-02-2024 20:11
  
  The London MP has battled to get the Home Office to take responsibility for its mistaken allegations of cheating against many thousands of overseas studentsThere was one crucial statistic in the cheating allegations that the Home Office levelled against more than 35,000 overseas students that instantly alerted Labour MP Stephen Timms to the likely presence of a huge miscarriage of justice.A dossier of evidence revealed that 97% of all international students who took a Home Office-approved Englis
  
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• Judge criticises Home Office errors in Palestinian refugee’s visa case

  13-02-2024 16:09
  
  Home secretary apologises to Chevening scholar Amena El Ashkar who was denied visa to study at LSEThe home secretary has given an “unreserved and unqualified apology” to a Palestinian refugee for “serious errors” made in relation to her student visa application.Amena El Ashkar, an alumna of the prestigious Chevening scholarship who describes herself as a stateless Palestinian, was denied a student visa by the Home Office after receiving a full scholarship to study for a P
  
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• Author Khaled Hosseini on book bans in the US: ‘It betrays students’

  13-02-2024 12:00
  
  Hosseini’s The Kite Runner has joined a growing list of titles ‘under review’ or challenged by school boards, with nearly 5,894 books banned from July 2021 to June 2023Khaled Hosseini, one of the world’s top authors, has slammed book bans in Florida and elsewhere in the US as a betrayal of students and their right to a good education.According to a PEN America report released late last year, US public schools had about 5,894 book bans from July 2021 to June 2023, with mor
  
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• English test scandal: reprieve plan was derailed by government reshuffle

  13-02-2024 07:00
  
  Sajid Javid had wanted review process for international students who believed their visas had been wrongly cancelled‘It destroyed my life’: the students accused of cheating in English testsWhat is the Home Office English test scandal?Ministers were poised five years ago to offer a route to a reprieve for thousands of international students who may have been wrongly accused of cheating, but the plan was derailed by a government reshuffle, the Guardian has learned.The former home secre
  
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