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Glyndwr University is due to learn whether a ban on recruiting overseas students will be lifted following allegations of visa fraud. | |
The university lost its trusted sponsor status for overseas students in June after a Home Office investigation. | |
It found nearly 50,000 UK immigrants may have obtained English certificates, despite not being able to speak it. | |
The university in Wrexham appealed against the ban and UK Visas and Immigration is due to respond. | |
The probe followed a BBC Panorama investigation into the issuing of English language certificates - on which the granting of UK student visas depends. | |
Glyndwr University was downgraded from its status as a "highly trusted sponsor" of student visas by the UK government, preventing it from recruiting overseas (non-EU) students. | |
Approximately 3,040 of Glyndwr's 8,800 students were from overseas. | |
The Home Office investigation found there were 230 Glyndwr-sponsored students with invalid language test results, which rose to 350 when questionable results were included. | |
In addition, 57 private further education colleges in the UK had their licences for admitting foreign students suspended. |