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May 15th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda The Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR) has accused the Tory-led government of putting short-term political aims above concerns over long-term migration, criticizing it for playing an “immigration numbers game” by including overseas students in its migration net count.
Calling for the UK government to switch to a “more rational method of measuring student migration flows”, the IPPR report said Britain “needs to take international students out of the ‘immigration’ numbers game, which is damaging our universities and colleges, our economy and our international standing.”
The UK Home Office ministers introduced curbs on the 400,000 overseas students who come to Britain each year to study, aiming to reduce annual net migration from its current level of 240,000 to the tens of thousands by 2015, rejecting demands by Universities UK and the National Union of Students (NUS) to exclude overseas students from the long-term migration figures.
“If the government ignores these arguments and persists with the current method of measuring students for the purposes of meeting its net migration target in 2015, … it must admit that it is placing short-term political considerations above a genuine concern with long-term net migration,” said Sarah Mulley, the IPPR’s associate director.
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