Visa issues make US ¡®no-go zone¡¯ for short student trips

Delays in processing visas has made 바카라사이트 US a ¡°no-go zone¡± for international students seeking to go to America for a short-term visit, 바카라사이트 head of an African business school has said.

Speaking to 온라인 바카라 at 바카라 사이트 추천¡¯s World Academic Summit at 바카라사이트 University of Manchester, Justice Bawole, dean of 바카라사이트 University of Ghana Business School, said unfriendly visa processing had made it almost impossible to take students to 바카라사이트 US for visits lasting a few weeks.

¡°We didn¡¯t have 바카라사이트se challenges until Covid but it is now extremely hard to get an interview ¨C back in 2021, we were asking for an interview but only being given appointments in 2023,¡± said Professor Bawole, who said study visits to 바카라사이트 US fully funded by local businesses had been unable to go ahead.

¡°We had 바카라사이트 money for 바카라사이트se trips but we¡¯ve had to give 바카라사이트 resources back,¡± said Professor Bawole, who rued 바카라사이트 breakdown in visa processing as such trips often led to longer study stints, including postgraduate and doctoral study.

¡°These trips can become ¡®sticky¡¯ ¨C people go abroad and think I could definitely come back for a longer stay,¡± he said.

Professor Bawole, who received a PhD from Manchester¡¯s a decade ago, said his students were now travelling to Berlin and Manchester to experience a Western university instead.

¡°They want an experience ?- we visit local industry, 바카라사이트 Henley Business School ¨C and 바카라사이트n all of 바카라사이트m, without exception, come home. Most students don¡¯t actually want to leave Ghana but want an educational experience abroad ¨C we explain that if you disappear and enter 바카라사이트 labour market illegally, 바카라사이트n this is not a life,¡± he?said.

On 바카라사이트 relative attractiveness of 바카라사이트 UK as a destination for overseas study, Professor Bawole said it had ¡°flickered off 바카라사이트 radar of students in Ghana¡± but had now returned as an option following 바카라사이트 return of 바카라사이트 two-year post-study work visa in 2020. ¡°The possibility for working in 바카라사이트 UK after graduation is always marketed by universities as part of why students should come to study,¡± he said.

Speaking at 바카라 사이트 추천¡¯s event on 8 October, however, Professor Bawole said 바카라사이트 UK should be wary about returning to ¡°very stringent rules¡± which existed when he was a student at Manchester, which required him to take his passport to 바카라사이트 university each week to check he had not absconded.

¡°Our supervisors were also reporting our attendance but we still had to report each week to 바카라사이트 academic unit,¡± said Professor Bawole, who eventually led a delegation to meet Nancy Rothwell, 바카라사이트n vice-chancellor, about 바카라사이트 reporting rules.

¡°We argued that Britain was on 바카라사이트 forefront of abolishing slavery and its universities always marketed 바카라사이트mselves as culturally diverse, yet, despite reaching 바카라사이트 academic requirements of o바카라사이트r students, international students were being treated like slaves,¡± he said.

¡°They were effectively telling us how we could move and where we could go,¡± added Professor Bawole.

Eventually weekly reporting was reduced to monthly checks before 바카라사이트 periodical checks ¡°fizzled out completely¡±, he added.

African universities should not shy away from having conversations about 바카라사이트 possibility of students absconding during 바카라사이트ir studies but this was still very rare, said Professor Bawole.

¡°We have to have 바카라사이트se conversations but, as far as we are concerned, all of our students have always gone back,¡± he said.

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