OPINION| New UK work visa to exclude graduates from Africa: If graduates did not get their qualifications from the list of top 50 universities, 40 of which are in the US, France, China, Hong Kong, Australia, Germany, Canada and Japan, they will be excluded
aimed at attracting highly skilled graduates from non-UK universities to work in various fields, including science, technology and entrepreneurship in the country.
“The UK is wrong to assume that graduates from high-ranking universities are more skilled than graduates from Africa.” He said many graduates from Africa, having survived in their immediate environment, perform whenever they have opportunities to further their studies outside the continent. Professor Mahfouz Adedimeji, the vice-chancellor of Ahman Pategi University in Kwara State, Nigeria, said the new UK visa regime appears to be skewed against Africa.
“That is why we are on strike,” said Professor Emmanuel Osodeke, the president of the Academic Staff Union of Universities in Nigeria, attributing the three-month ongoing industrial action in Nigeria’s federal universities to the government’s failure to implement a 2009 agreement seeking revitalisation of the institutions and better working conditions.
“Most of them get the money from the government. Every country has a right to put a limit to who should come to their country or not. We should develop our own country.” Admitting the setbacks Adedimeji identified, the AAU secretary general also blamed the plight of African universities on poor remuneration and low research funding by governments.
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