Plans to send overseas students hom

Plans to send overseas students home blocked by Tory leadership
A plan by Theresa May to force overseas students to return home after they have graduated has been blocked by the Tory leadership in a move reported to have been led by George Osborne.
A day after sharing a pre-election platform with the chancellor, the home secretary lost a battle to revive a proposal from the Tories’ 2010 general election manifesto to require overseas students to apply for a new UK visa from their home country after graduating.
The setback for May, reported by the Financial Times, followed a campaign led by the former universities minister David Willetts and the inventor Sir James Dyson to reject the plan to force overseas students to leave the EU after graduating.
Senior Tory officials said the party would not repeat its pledge from its 2010 general election manifesto, as May had demanded, to “require that students must usually leave the country and reapply if they want to switch to another course or apply for a work permit”.
One senior Tory official told the FT: “We have a policy that international students can stay when they graduate if they find a graduate-level job paying £24,000 a year. That remains the policy.”
The intervention by Osborne will be seen as a setback for May, who is seen as the frontrunner to succeed David Cameron as Tory leader. Osborne is said to be highly wary of the home secretary – she was the only potential leadership candidate not invited by the chancellor’s close ally Michael Gove to meet Jeb Bush during his recent visit to London.