International students annually contribute over £5.3bn to UK economy
Asserting 'Genuine international students are welcome in the UK’, McFadden has stated: They make a significant contribution to the academic and cultural life of the universities and colleges where they study, and bring over £5.3bn to our economy each year….”
The assertion comes along with the Home Secretary’s announcement that foreign students from outside Europe wanting to come to the UK to study will be required to meet stricter entry criteria.
The new regulations ensure that students studying below degree level have a limited ability to work in the UK, and that their dependants cannot work here at all.
The Border Agency has added: The UK universities and colleges offer excellent education and the government recognises the essential contribution that genuine international students bring - economically, academically and socially - to the country as a whole, as well as to the universities and colleges in which they study. However, these steps are part of the government's commitment to crack down on potential abuse of the system.
Alan Johnson has already asserted: 'We want foreign students to come here to study, not to work illegally, and we have set out necessary steps which will maintain the robustness of the system we introduced last year. I make no apologies for that.'
UK Government decided to save NHS budget by outsourcing NHS administration to Indian call centres and data bases
th January 2011: Indians in the UK may soon find their kith and kin back home making the most out of outsourcing by the UK.
In fact, Indian call centres are all set for extra earnings during the coming financial year, as the government’s biggest spending department — National Health Service (NHS) —seeks new ways to save money.
Having an annual budget of £104 billion, the department wants to achieve 20 per cent savings by 2014.
According to health service managers, the target can best be achieved by outsourcing more NHS administration to Indian call centres and data bases. Compared to their counterparts in the UK, these are cheaper to run.
Even now, the Indian call centers are among the preferred ones. A UK government-backed company, NHS Shared Business Services (SBS), currently employees 700 Indians in Delhi and Pune for taking care of invoices, data entry and administration.
Their work has earned praise of SBS managing director John Neilson. He had only recently explained there is no clinical data, medical record data or anything with that level of sensitivity or anything that involves direct customer contact, none of that sort of activity happens in India. He had added they were sensitive to the market need that people feel more comfortable with that sort of data being managed in the UK,” he added.
Acting chief executive of the NHS Confederation Nigel Edwards says outsourcing more back office functions to India might be something that people will look at and the NHS might save money.
In fact, Indian call centres are all set for extra earnings during the coming financial year, as the government’s biggest spending department — National Health Service (NHS) —seeks new ways to save money.
Having an annual budget of £104 billion, the department wants to achieve 20 per cent savings by 2014.
According to health service managers, the target can best be achieved by outsourcing more NHS administration to Indian call centres and data bases. Compared to their counterparts in the UK, these are cheaper to run.
Even now, the Indian call centers are among the preferred ones. A UK government-backed company, NHS Shared Business Services (SBS), currently employees 700 Indians in Delhi and Pune for taking care of invoices, data entry and administration.
Their work has earned praise of SBS managing director John Neilson. He had only recently explained there is no clinical data, medical record data or anything with that level of sensitivity or anything that involves direct customer contact, none of that sort of activity happens in India. He had added they were sensitive to the market need that people feel more comfortable with that sort of data being managed in the UK,” he added.
Acting chief executive of the NHS Confederation Nigel Edwards says outsourcing more back office functions to India might be something that people will look at and the NHS might save money.