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MPs blame lack of controls for UK student visa abuse

Up to 50,000 migrants were allowed to abuse student visas and come to the UK to work because of a lack of proper controls, MPs have said.

A powerful Westminster committee said it was extraordinary that new requirements had been introduced without enough checks and balances.

The warnings come just a year after Glasgow Caledonian University became the first in the UK to have its licence to take foreign students temporarily suspended amid visa fears.

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