Tough immigration controls for UK employers

Employers in the UK who plan to recruit skilled workers from outside Europe must register with the UK Border Agency (UKBA) by 1st October,2010.


Employers in the UK who plan to recruit skilled workers from outside Europe must register with the UK Border Agency (UKBA) by 1st October to ensure they are licensed when the scheme goes live at the end of November.

Text/ Under the Government's new Australian-style points system businesses wanting to employ skilled foreign workers from outside the EEA and sponsor their entry to the UK must apply for a licence.

UKBA said it is committed to supporting industry through the introduction of the rules to ensure legitimate businesses do not fall foul of the new regime and only those with the skills the country needs will be able to work or study here and no more.

Employers found to have negligently employed illegal migrants face large on-the-spot fines of up to £10,000 prosecution and a prison sentence. The Agency is holding series of meetings on the tough new points system for national and international industry.

Border and Immigration Minister Liam Byrne said: "The points system is one of the biggest shake-ups to the immigration system in a generation ensuring only those with the skills we need will be able to work or study here and no more.

"This tough points system, plus our plans for newcomers to earn citizenship, will reduce overall numbers of economic migrants coming to Britain, and the numbers awarded permanent settlement.

"Our message to businesses is loud and clear - if you want to employ foreign workers from outside the EEA, you need to apply now for a sponsor licence."

Earlier this year the Home Office unveiled the criteria which businesses will have to meet to become a sponsor under the points system. These are that: any business must register with the Agency as a sponsor before they can bring foreign workers from outside the EEA into the UK to work; and as a condition of keeping their licence, sponsors will need to alert us if migrants do not comply with their immigration conditions - for example if they disappear or do not turn up for their job or course. Any sponsor that does not comply with this requirement will risk losing its licence. From November, those who register successfully will be able to sponsor new foreign workers to work in the UK or support those already in the UK who want to stay.

Skilled foreign workers must have: enough points through their qualifications and potential earnings; a good grasp of English language; and enough money to support themselves for the first month of their stay. The new points system is just one part of the biggest shake up to immigration and border security in 45 years, along with fingerprint visas for anyone wanting to come to the UK and compulsory ID cards for foreign nationals.

Minister Byrne: “Only those with the skills we need will be able to work or study here and no more”


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Electric current to the brain 'boosts maths ability'

 Applying a tiny electrical current to the brain could make

you better at learning maths, according to Oxford University scientists.

They found that targeting a part of the brain called the parietal lobe

improved the ability of volunteers to solve numerical problems.

They hope the discovery could help people with dyscalculia, who may struggle
with numbers.

Another expert said effects on other brain functions would need checking.

The findings are reported in the journal Current Biology.
Some studies have suggested that up to one in five
people have trouble with maths, affecting not just their ability to complete
problems but also to manage everyday activities such as telling the time and
managing money.

Neuroscientists believe that activity within the parietal lobe plays a
crucial role in this ability, or the lack of it.
When magnetic fields were used in earlier research to disrupt electrical activity in this part of the brain, previously numerate volunteers temporarily developed discalculia, finding it much harder to solve maths problems.

Persistent benefits:

The latest research goes a step further, using a one milliamp current to
stimulate the parietal lobe of a small number of students.
The current could not be felt, and had no measurable effect on other brain
functions.

As it was turned on, the volunteers tried to learn a puzzle which involved
substituting numbers for symbols.
Those given the current from right to left across the parietal lobe did
significantly better when given, compared to those who were given no electrical
stimulation.

The direction of the current was important - those given stimulation running
in the opposite direction, left to right, did markedly worse at these puzzles
than those given no current, with their ability matching that of an average
six-year-old.
The effects were not short-lived, either. When the volunteers whose
performance improved was re-tested six months later, the benefits appear to have
persisted.

There was no wider effect on general maths ability in either group, just on
the ability to complete the puzzles learned as the current was applied.
Dr Cohen Kadosh, who led the study, said: "We are not advising people to go
around giving themselves electric shocks, but we are extremely excited by the
potential of our findings and are now looking into the underlying brain
changes.
"We've shown before that we can induce dyscalculia, and now it seems we might
be able to make someone better at maths, so we really want to see if we can help
people with dyscalculia.

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