MATT GOODWIN: How the Graduate Visa Scheme is Destroying the UK Economy
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- čas přidán 21. 05. 2024
- In this clip from BBC Politics Live, I explore the broken state of the UK's university funding model and the flawed graduate visa scheme. Universities are increasingly reliant on international students to plug financial gaps, but this approach is unsustainable and damaging to our economy. Many of these international students, often from non-elite institutions, end up in low-wage, low-skill jobs, contributing less to the economy than expected.
The current system has turned into a Ponzi scheme, with an endless influx of students from countries like Nigeria, India, and Pakistan. This influx is not benefiting the UK, as these students frequently stay beyond their intended period, bringing relatives and adding pressure to our already strained resources. Our GDP per head remains weak because we're not focusing on high-skilled, high-wage jobs.
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Well done Matt despite the biased BBC chairing of the panel
Who is the Conservative mp?
They would have him on if it didnt mean theyd have no program and the right wouldnt watch.
Jo Coburn is impartial.
@@eightiesmusic1984 Really !!!
It doesn’t matter at this stage he’s gone in 6 weeks anyway🤣
And thanks Matt for all you're doing for us.
Anybody that is not UK resident should be made to pay for everything. We are not a fucking charity
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and Bringing their Families in too !! what a scam
Delicately said, well done. I, for one, am fed up subsidising foreign families to enjoy their undeserved life in my country.
Hear Hear 👍
Thank you Matt for caring , not many do care about us these days.
You held your own 👏
My god 4 against 1…. BBC at its best. Well done Matt for showing them the truth.
Just like the run up to the Brexit referendum.
It's usually 4 against 0 on the MSM when it comes to this dogmatic agenda.
And the Asian HAS to mention far right... Whilst his cousins flood in and force out this "far right" from every major city/company
They were no match for Matt though.
British children's safety & women's safety should be priority
I've got to be careful of the utube police again. That allows us to be told to F/off. And we can't tell them to bugger ov. Well I hope this will be all reversed. In favour of us White British people who's lands they are in
And men?
Please I don't think they regard men as human
Yea you're not wrong with that. Children in these muslims hand, feeding them drugs, drink 🍻🍻 and then rapped, to be passed about. I feel sorry for those poor women having to wear that scarf thing. And the vale, when all you see are eyes 👁️👁️👀👀 Pocking out at you. But can't tell if it's a woman terrorists or a terrorist hiding in one
Nobody cares like you didnt care about the children and women of iraq blown up over made up wmds
What "soft power" is that woman talking about? Seem to me we are a laughing stock internationally and this only advertises us a soft belly target for chancers.
Soft power, indoctrination and pushing 'the message'.
She’s talking utter bs. Probably from the University of Grimsby or Grimthorpe.
“Soft power” is part of the idea that by having foreign students come to the UK to study, when they go back to their home countries, they will have a positive bias towards the UK. The idea is that life will be easier for the UK if people around the world like our country, because they used to study here, so they have a familiarity with our country. They won’t view the UK as just another random country, they will view us as a “friend” because of their time at university here. So that makes international politics and international business easier, because influential people around the world are already familiar with the UK, because they once studied here.
Labour BS used to undermine everything.
Get used to it for the next few years as everything continues to get worse.
Exactly, pakistan for example seems to provide no help in extraditing their foreign nationals, despite us giving them tonnes of aid etc. Soft power is a lie.
They do not want to hear the truth Matt. 🙂
Your truth
@@SK-kh2rs what’s the truth ?? Tell me tell me 🙂
British Universities should exist for the British peoples. If their existence depends on foreigners, then they should be cut off of any taxpayers money.
Cut down I think 🤔 yep. With all these hateful muslims. You live by the White British peoples lands they are in. It's not theirs. It's White country
Exactly
It depends on foreigners because our governments have made them un affordable for us
Hilarious, Mr Ali has to waffle about the right wing as prompting criticism of mass immigration. No sir, immigration is a subject a majority of this country are concerned with, a majority who tend to be at the bottom end of the pecking order, and are thus most affected. We are not all farrrr right fanatics, just right in expecting that our concerns and needs are being ignored by those who, generally, can afford to be complacent about said subject. Because such fortunate folk, living as they do in their nice, comfy, safe bubbles, tend to remain unaffected by the huge downside of unrestricted immigration. Oh, and a note to Mr Ali, all aspects of our lives are being impacted by immigration. From infrastructure, including of course housing, decently paid employment and training opportunities, the availability of school places, access to medical services, all are failing as they cope with the demands from a growing population. And never mind the negative effects on our social cohesion by allowing in millions who share neither our culture or our values. I doubt Mr Ali, so keen to talk up the supposed advantages of immigration, has ever looked on it from the other side.
The top American universities are the same.
The BBC host (sorry, i cany name her because i stopped watching years ago) really pushing back hard on Matt, not at all on the other 3. So, not just 'asking the tough questions', naked bias.
I only ever see the BBC on social media and they never fail to make me want to vomit. Kudos to you Matt for having a stronger stomach than me.
Matt for PM
I have just completed a one year MA and saw first hand this kind of scam. Student X was hardly able to speak English, required constant support from staff and other students, plagiarised, and then played the mental health card. He has now brought wide and child over and extended his visa thank you very much.
Very true its been happening for many years this student visa scam they shouldn't be allowed to bring there family.
Who is the Conservative mp?
And this panel support the thousands of bogus students.
Some students from Nigeria now trying to get UK to pay for their courses.
Don't worry, there's now an army of taxpayer-funded interpreters to help out. My girlfriend is studying to be a nurse & one of her assignments was to visit a health centre in Sheffield. This centre had 58 interpreters on their books....guess who's paying for them?
@@cardroid8615 There are no conservative MPs are there?
Immigrations DOES make a BIG different to this country .
No more ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.
Remember BREXIT? Yeah, that Brexit, how well has it aged. Now it's "immigration" that is the cause of all the problems of the lower class Britons. Think for yourselves for once instead of swallowing up whatever the bandwagon crew is dishing out.
This woman seems to take it for granted that we are educating foreign students to service the UK instead of expecting them to return to their countries with their skills.
Excellent point.
And the ones that stay send billions in remittances back to their home countries
They send billions to their country you think.is it free? Your citizens can't do the type of work they do. They help you grow your economy.
@@yinkadearemuwe can't seem to make our continent prosper yet we come here and tell the British people we are growing their economy. They create the jobs and we come and take them that is not helping to grow their economy is it???, if we were so good at creating jobs in Africa we wouldn't leave in the first place. We are incapable of growing ours let alone another people.
@kasikwagoma6740 I live in Africa enjoy myself and the weather.i feel sorry for those relocating making it a do or die to go to the UK spending thousands of pounds to get there. There are a lot of untapped opportunities here in Africa.
Matt, you totally owned this. Your style is non-threatening, intelligent, and based. You would be excellent in Reform.
Not for our kids, only for foreigners then give them ur homes
This country benefits everyone but our own !
4 women, each with a minimum of 3 children easily. So of course they are the first in line for housing and welfare budgets.
Matt speaks for the British
Matt is 100% correct. the Politicians just want to drag out any reforms until they fade away.
I seem to remember reading or hearing that 'students' are allowed to fly in their families? WTF?
& claim benefits for them.
And then never show up for the course
I definitely don't remember voting for this shiite or being asked!!
Most of them couples and making babies in UK. You can understand whats thier plan.
It’s the same here in Australia and a teacher mentioned recently that their children are nearly always requiring special needs education. He said that they are against getting officially diagnosed though because this will work against them when they apply to stay. These people are mainly Nepalese and their government pays for their PHD’s with the idea that they will return to staff their new universities back in Nepal but they have no intention of returning.
Well, Matt, I am a graduate visa holder who'd paid 3x more in tuition fees than the average Brit. I have no dependents or access to public funds. I work, I pay taxes and I am Rishi's grand plan to fund the NHS I don't use. I pay my own rent and energy bills. What exactly am I taking out of your country that I haven't put in?
Don't mind these self centered people that move around the world destabilizing and creating colonies and now you don't want them. What were thier ancestors doing in those countries if not searching for wealth?. I just can't stand the British pride and guilt
They are not ready to hear this. They think we are here for free.
They are in their eco chamber blinded by bias, they will not hear the facts that contradicts their view. Just to add, our visa condition specifically mentions no access to public funds, while we are double taxed with ihs and ni on top of all other charges just hear total bs like this
Then why did you come? For our benefit? I don’t think so. You’re not doing us a favour you’re doing yourself a favour.
@@joneschilufya867 We don’t want you here at all. Indians couldn’t handle a 100 thousand Brits being there - what makes you think we want to tolerate you either? We’re way TOO tolerant frankly.
Matt Goodwin on the ball as ever
Smartest person on the panel 👍
Please don’t bring 200,000 palestines here
Please don't bring One here.
Fingers crossed for you guys 🤞😢
@@robertwilliams2323 Ha ha!
Matt is a true patriot and a very educated man , who can see what's going on. He's the only one on this panel who talks common sense. God help us if Labour ever get into power.
What? You don't want more Philistines? :)
The problems started when we decided that universities are businesses and not places of learning.
Why are they allowed to bring their families to the UK ?!!!
Because the Tories allowed them to.
Because the UK is a soft touch.
They are not allowed this is such a misconception
@@johnp-h8896Tories or labor
International students can't bring familys, current government changed it
As usual Mr Goodwin has his finger on the Pulse…He knows what he is talking about
Release the figures so we all see how they benefit Britain otherwise I don't believe what one or two people say.
They will never mention the high tuition and IHS.....I could not even see a dentist with my high IHS fee....
@@ejeefe4816 So? No one forces you to come. You’re not doing us a favour by being here, you’re doing it to benefit yourself.
😂 What do you mean we take out more than we bring in ?
1) We pay double the tuition fees.
2) We pay for our visa and NHS before we enter the UK.
3) Then for a graduate visa, we pay the NHS fees, we pay the Visa fees and then we look for jobs.
4) We can't and we are not claiming any benefits, if I get sick I need to ring a doctor back in my country. When I called your NHS for a friend of mine who collapsed and was unconscious for a couple of minutes do you know what they told me " Is he awake can he speak" I told them "Yes he can speak but he is disoriented and can't stand on his own". They told me " Oh that's fine he is gonna be fine all he has to do is just lay down on the floor and he is gonna be alright".😒....
We do minimum-skilled jobs part-time during studies because we don't want to spend our parents money on top of all the double fees and charges we have already paid.
So What do you mean we take out more?😂😂
Then DONT COME! No one has forced you. And you are NOT representative of the thousands of scam students using these visas to get into the country, pretend to study for a few months, bring their economically inactive families and never leave. Britain is not a free for all for the world.
They just don't want you here.
1. Where are you from? Is it a culturally compatible country?
2. Are you financially self sufficient or do you require government support?
3. Do you genuinely fulfil a need in a shortage area?
4. Do you like Britain and its culture or do you want to turn it into a mini version of your homeland?
5. Are you intending to stay or go home?
6. Do you intend to bring lots of economically inactive dependents with you?
7. Did you arrive legally, semi-legally (ie abusing the student visa system to get into the country), or illegally?
Your answers will determine whether you are a source of British anger about immigration or not. If you are incapable of distinguishing between discontent with mass, unskilled, culturally incompatible, economically non-beneficial, potentially hostile immigration and ‘normal’ immigration at ‘normal’ levels then I would suggest you might not be compatible.
@@sasadom8749this is a conversation for adults
Let Matt finish speaking, for God's sake!
NOT the BBC way!
BRITISH STUDENTS FIRST
Who is the Conservative mp?
So let international students stay so that British students can be funded by the universities!
British Students don't like/value Education
Brilliant Matt. You and Douglas Murray 👍🏻👌🏼🙏🏻
A total and obvious scam...Matt is correct.
Immigration is the root of all our issues. We are sick and tired of being called far right for calling this. Even our sewage system is now suffering. We have quantity not quality. And I predict major issues in the future
Spot on mate
Its so relieving to have a voice like Matts...he always tells it straight...even on the biased bbc.
Well said matt all true this is another scam its way to come in the uk and why have the students family come too. While the student pays for the course who pays for the family and its not helping the uk.
University is no longer a place where people go to learn, they are no longer gatekeepers of meritocracy (if they ever were really). They are producers, producing a product for consumers that expect to receive their product with as little hassle as possible.
My wife sees this as a lecturer in a minor university.
Quite right Matt
The more of these Degree Mills that go bust the better.
We need LESS students going to Universities ! Germany has 24% students going to Uni, we have almost 50% of students going to Uni !
Piss heads on shite courses half of them ! Was shocked the other day 3 or 4 19yr old lads in my local, and Wow they were Plumbing and heating apprentices,they wanted a trade !!! Which we don't have enough young people doing !
And Germany is a much better educated and more productive country. Not all universities deserve to continue in existence.
They never had polytechnics turned into Universities. The requirements to get into University in Germany is extremely high. They also don't have a load of BS waste of space degrees
That is a bit debatable since Germany has something called Fachhochschule which would be an University by British standards but are marked as technical schools due to the name.
@@SolomonSunder Technical schools produce skills that equate to UK apprenticeships, we need more of these !
Matt Goodwin only person with a brain including the host, who has the magical touch of cutting him off, when they don't like what he says
What about the effect on housing costs for poor British people? The immigration numbers no way make up for the poverty created by the competition for housing. The only people who benefit from this are the rich.
The BIG Claim is that students contribute £41.9 billion to the UK economy . What they don’t tell you it’s over FOUR years. For each person entering the UK is &16.5k per permanent resident per year, pers person pro rata. That’s to maintain current appalling standards of service provision. Chuck in relatives that need hospitals , GP’s , roads , school places etc and it is not a rosey picture . She talks about” business models “. Theirs is privatised profit and socialised losses paid by the taxpayer
Shut down the ones no needed
Yes you don't need legal migration absolutely agree too many people from outside are here😊...but why the hell you don't have british doctors, british engineers , british IT consultants,british scientists in abundance? It's high time you realize that as well your public doesn't want to work and simply enjoy benefits..your education system is too leanient...you sort out that first and make migration to 0
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Because opportunities to become so have been undercut but masses of foreign students/workers. When train British doctors when you can buy them in?
@@mogznwazthis is the lie you tell yourselves to make up for many British indigenous peoples failed parenting. If these opportunities are opened to people outside they are definitely open to citizens first. Tuition for international students are double the cost of what citizens pay, plus other insurance charges, NHS and so on. Citizens have all benefits that the international community do not have. You lots are just allowing your racist rhetoric jump out.
Spot on.
Uk universities don’t work for uk students. Like Matt said, the graduate premium is falling. Do a STEM qualification in the uk - plough in 60k + , and enter an economy with a large,y moribund high tech sector. Do a STEM degree in Germany, pay maybe 200 euros a year in tuition fees, then move into an economy with a dynamic high tech sector….
UK is just not getting the gist
Close the dross and inefficient universities !
Immigrants from Asia typically bring in all extended family members too, this is what is destroying the social welfare system.
And they never leave
Talk about the panel burying its head in the sand
Come to Britain, get a degree in Deliveroo Studies.
Thanks Matt. Would be good if the panel listened
You can bet your bottom dollar that the rest all have a financial stake in keeping the unwanteds coming
As an indian i have been planing to come Uk for my further studies but after seeing hates of natives in comment section am afraid to come..💀
Study in India then!
@Yes, it is true it’s better to study in India then in the UK. I am a student in UK from India and I still regret my decision of coming here, paying 20k for tuition, 2k for VISA and then around 8k for a year’s rent is really not worth it. Getting a minimum pay job is not enough to sustain and good paying jobs are non existent in this country as majority of the investment have gone out for Economic failure, people are UK are happy with minimum paying job and have no intention of doing high paying job as well, and on other hand India might be a developing country but there are more opportunities there than UK. UK was a developed country and now going towards underdevelopment for these anti immigration mindset, these people like that we come here for free and we don’t contribute to there economy, but if they could calculate they would understand how much loss of resources they will face and your NHS will fully collapse if we immigrate decide not to come here. Anyway I am going back to India after I complete my useless degree here in UK and many people are as graduate visa is actually of no use to us. Enjoy your downfall as a country. cheers
If they put so much into the economy why can't they show us numbers then?
The economy should be there to serve the country NOT the country serving the economy.
It’s a breath of fresh air to listen to Matt who is actually truthful about the way our education system should be working. IMO at the moment many foreign students use useless universities as a way into the country and they never have any intentions to study for a degree,
Well said Matt you tell them
They don't want to hear him😂😂😂
Too clever for all of them
Matt you should be a MP Looking out for Britain and British people
Thank you Matt. Wonderful moment of TV Gold with the patriotism accusation too.
I love your work Matt. Thanks for your voice👏👏
Skilled controlled migration is a good thing, speaking as one who pays a good amount of taxes
Uncontrolled unskilled migration is horrible for everyone and puts pressures on services
I truly hate this "migration" is good dogma, we are not all the same, like not all Brits are the same
100%
" the underlying issue is Conservative Party in 2019 promised Britain a high skilled, controlled immigration policy.
What the Conservative Party delivered was a low skilled, uncontrolled immigration policy. Which is why the Party has lost so many of its 2019 voters. This isn't rocket sceince. "
100% correct
If coming to the UK as a student you do not need to bring your whole family with you. I see nothing wrong with international students but they go home if they don't attend the course. They should pay for their own course, their own interpreters and health costs, it should not come down to foreign students having free access to everything here. The UK needs to invest in training UK youths to ensure our future in trade and industry.
It’s not free.. research before talking 😓, these uneducated people 🙂
@@lifeisanexcitingjourney5534 You are living in your own little bubble if you think foreign students pay for everything. Do your research, you seem ignorant of the facts of the true cost of foreign student programmes to the tax payer and the insidious drain on UK services.
This whole debacle started with Thatcher who seemed oblivious to a need to have mechanics and carpenters and plumbers, etc. Our local polytechnic was converted to a University chasing white collar education and now we're flooded with foreign students and have had to change basic things like roads, etc because these students don't even know how to cross the road. Polys were created for a reason... we need to get back to that.
That last line was killer. The Tory looked like he was going to have a stroke.
Matt go educate yourself about the contribution of international students in the UK. I work in a research lab in the UK, 90% of my team were international students and most are on £60K+ paying loads of tax and without any recourse to public funds so I don’t get it: We pay for everything, NHS, exorbitant visa fees and school fees.
They are the minority. There has been a massive number of scam student visas fished out by fish ‘universities’ as a way to get people into the country who have no intention of studying, or leaving.
So 4 pro mass migration people against 1 anti mass migration pro British person
How can there be an honest debate about a problem that needs solving with people who have a vested interest in not solving the problem?
How do you put up with these idiots Matt.
Thank you Mr Goodwin.
it's all about replacement
First off,many leave in their first year of uni,and those university teachers are way way overpaid ,
I'd say it's a reasonable tradeoff if you've got plenty of available housing around the university. But it's not a good deal if there's already a housing shortage in the local area.
Blairs 'education' legacy.
The BBC host Jo Coburn " hating and interrupting" Matt Goodwin. What a leftie lackey.
'Just following the BBC prime directive...& some lefties claim that the BBC is right-leaning!!
I’m international student. I don’t think UK universities have low standards. But my colleagues are paying for assignments outside and getting degrees. Then earning and sending money back to their countries. System is broken.
I agree with Matt. Apart from few universities, there are inflation of universities in the UK. They are profiting and fooling international students.
They are left wing activists facilitating mass importation of foreigners on scam visas
Most people come on student visas as just to get in uk with no intention of studying then they try to find a British citizen to marry and stay
The same way your grandparents came and took more from these countries
Well said Matt. He’s always correct.
Great job Matt , I'm constantly amazed at your patience.
I’m British and in 2023 my first research proposal got misled by Professor Doris Schetizki and Dr Hazel Messenger from London Metropolitan University. Then in 2024 my second research proposal got rejected by the admission office. Also I-was accepted for a PhD in finance by Imperial College but for some reasons they stopped communicating with me. I am an evidence of the universities ganged up against me.
How you can bare to be on these programs is beyond me. I get thicker having listened to 'follow the evidence' 15 times while not doing it.
Lord help us, Labour will be the next government...
This is about something far more important than money .....
Matt the destroyer, 👍
Couldn’t give a flying fig about “Soft Power”. It’s just an excuse used to justify wasteful spending.
Worked with them all monies goes back home.apart from rent money to slum landlords.
This country is being hollowed out so they can retire early back home. The alternative is what we had in the 1960s. We have a bloated state handicapping the country. Also too many people who talk for a living.
Matt 💯 ❤
Bring back technical colleges and polytechnics. When my daughter graduated in law there were about 20 graduates. When the business degree graduated there were 200+ I bet many don't work in business post degree
Lol o course the immigrant on the panel says immigration is good but then continues to say we should talk about real issues like housing......yes an issue caused by immigration....you literally can't make this up.
Foreign visas need more scrutiny and they should not be able to bring family members.
There is more to this argument than just the economic advantages and disadvantages of allowing hordes of overseas students in to study and ultimately stay here.
What about our culture, customs, heritage, the housing supply, the environment and the impact on the career prospects of British youngsters?
Exactly
Not to mention the opportunities for enemies to infiltrate. What would it take for sleeper cells to activate across the country at once like 7/10 on steroids? Not much
4 women, each with a minimum of 3 children easily. So of course they are the first in line for housing and welfare budgets.
Well done Matt,what gets me is when you highlight problems the politicians just carry on with their own agenda,instead of saying ,thats a good point you have raised I think we must look into that.
Yep, all those jobs BRitish kids could be doing as a first job, TEsco, etc, are going to people in the UK essentially on a long holiday.
Matt is 100% correct. Young British students pay £9.2k per year while other European countries subsidize undergraduate education. As our young people then have to pay back their loans, we then bring in tens of thousands of foreigners to do masters degrees. These foreigners then get visas to work in Britain and take the jobs which our own people should get. Basically, our young people can’t afford masters degrees. The solution, less universities, more apprenticeships, fewer overseas students, and for once, upskill our own people and reduce unemployment.
I agree with a big part of Matt's argument. It is not the students arriving alone that is costing the economy, quite the opposit. However, It is the companian part that starts costing the system. But when a student stays, finds a job, pays taxes then we need data to show if their companions are taking more out of the system than their working partner is putting in with taxes. The UK has too many low quality universities that are just a business with low entry requirements, these are not attracting the skills that can help improve the economy. These are mainly students from countries that are more likely here to stay and get a residency which rarely turns into a contributing element to the economy
Wow, what a balanced panel. What a clearly unbiased host.
The Beeb at its best. Plenty of form mind, just keep paying the annual fee, or you'll end up in Court. Marvellous. Rinse and repeat.
You need college's to train, British plumbers, brickies, mechanics, also British nurses, Dentists and Doctors. We also need to push the feckless poor and those others that rely on benefits rather than working.