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The UK Border Agency (UKBA) says student attendance at London Metropolitan University is not being monitored and that many have no right to be here.

As a result, the university will no longer be allowed to authorise visas.

The university said it would be challenging UKBA's claims.

A task force has been set up to help students affected by the decision which means some 2,000 overseas non-EU students will have to find an alternative institution to sponsor them or they will be told that they will be removed from the UK.

The government says it wants to assess how many students will be successfully reallocated to alternative institutions before the UKBA sends out notices giving them 60 days to leave. At this stage, the Home Office is unable to say when those notices will be issued.

The UKBA says London Metropolitan University had "failed to address serious and systemic failings" identified six months ago.

Immigration Minister Damian Green said London Metropolitan University had failed in three particular areas:

• More than a quarter of the 101 students sampled were studying at the university when they had no leave to remain in this country
• Some 20 of 50 checked files found "no proper evidence" that the students' mandatory English levels had been reached
• And some 142 of 250 (57%) sampled records had attendance monitoring issues, which meant it was impossible for the university to know whether students were turning up for classes or not.

Professor Malcolm Gillies, the university's vice chancellor, described the claims made against the institution as "not particularly cogent" and said it would be disputing them.

"I would go so far as to say that UKBA has been rewriting its own guidelines on this issue and this is something which should cause concern to all universities in the UK," he said. 

按照规定，一旦招生资格被正式吊销，目前在伦敦城市大学就读的近3千名来自欧盟以外国家的学生必须在60天内转到其它有执照的院校，否则会被下令离开英国。 据悉，内政部边境署官员发现这所大学有太多漏洞，以至于无法确信在那里就读的海外学生不会成为非法移民。

  边境署的审查发现的问题有：一， 尽管伦敦都会大学已经做出保证，但是仍然有国际学生在没有有效签证的情况下继续读书。二， 有国际学生获得该校签证抵达英国，却没有到校注册、上课，而大学没有按规定向边境署汇报。三， 大学在招收国际学生时没有测试他们有足够的英语水平。 伦敦城市大学校长吉利斯教授27日表示：“大学非常失望，因为在被暂时禁止从海外招生的6个星期以来，学校已经竭尽全力显示目前的运作可以确保继续拥有执照，新管理层也对过去的漏洞进行补救”。
  伦敦城市大学已多次表示，如果不能招收欧盟外的学生，每年要损失至少1千万英镑的收入。校长吉利斯说，内政部的这一决定对该校及其合作伙伴的影响很大，同时，不仅对今年秋季有意到该校读书的学生产生麻烦，也对那些已经在读的海外学生有影响。 英国教育部高教司8月29日晚也召开会议，决定成立专门小组帮助伦敦城市大学“转移”包括中国在内的欧盟外留学生。他们将在一，二天内制定出应急办法，要求能接受学生的大学提供详细清单并简化入学手续。 中国驻英大使馆官员在接受本报记者参访时表示，大使馆已经注意到伦敦城市大学发生的事件，正密切地与英国官方，学校保持着联系。大使馆将为留学生提供力所能及的帮助。按照规定，该大学有权对内政部的决定提出上诉，并且可以在执照被吊销6个月后重新申请。 伦敦城市大学开设咨询热线，如果你担心你在该大学的学籍是否还有效，可以拨打电话 (+44) (0)20 7133 4141查询