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Concerns Degrees Like ‘Middle East Queer Politics’ Used As Immigration Route Into U.K.

by Richard Eldred
3 December 2023 1:00 PM

Controversy surrounds U.K. universities offering master’s degrees in woke subjects amid concerns about immigration misuse and calls for stricter regulations to limit net migration. The Telegraph has the story.

International students can take masters degrees in ‘Transnational Queer Feminist Politics’ and ‘Queer Studies’, prompting fears that courses which do little to fill skills gaps are being used as an immigration route.

Soas University of London, popular among international students, with 1,890 studying full time (2021-2022), runs masters courses in the ‘Anthropology of Food’ as well as ‘Transnational Queer Feminist politics with special reference to the Middle East’ – both costing £25,320 per year for overseas students (compared to £12,220 per year for domestic students). 

The latter includes a module on ‘Queering Migrations and Diasporas’ and Soas advertises scholarships for such courses.

One of these covers living, tuition and return airfare costs for “five Indian nationals” and another is for candidates “who are nationals of Afghanistan, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Palestine territories”.

At University College London (UCL), the most popular with 22,885 international students (2021/22), overseas students can pay £31,100 to study MAs in ‘Gender, Society and Representation Masters’ and ‘Race Ethnicity and Postcolonial Studies’.

At the University of York, where 5,765 international students studied between 2021/22, overseas students can apply to do an MA in ‘Queer Studies’ for £23,900, which allows them to explore “the cultures that shaped us, and the cultures we shape, through an intersectional queer lens”. 

The course includes modules in ‘Gothic Bodies’ and ‘Late Medieval Sexualities’.

Under current graduate visa rules, international students are allowed to remain in the U.K. for at least two years after successfully completing a course. 

This goes up to three years for PhDs and other doctoral qualifications. 

Around 39% of all postgraduates are international students, with the last census showing that a third of the international student population was based in London.

Worth reading in full.

Tags: EducationExploitationImmigrationStudent VisasUniversitiesWoke

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