End to bogus colleges

It is excellent news: all private colleges that recruit students from overseas will be required to register with the Home Office and prove they are genuine educational establishments. The discovery that hundreds of small language schools in Britain - including some in Scotland exposed in recent weeks by The Herald - have been a front for people to enter the UK to work illegally has raised serious concerns. It is not merely a question of illegal immigration, but the exploitation of genuine would-be students which makes it imperative that these bogus colleges are prevented from perpetrating further abuses.