British visa
I was rather amused reading Mr Shahedur Rahman's suggestion (Letter to the Editor, April 07, 2004) on compensating for 'the imperial repression' by letting people stay in Britain. From a university student such comments are only unexpected. I would say to Mr. Rahman that a historic wrong cannot be compensated by another wrong, in this case letting a mass migration and justifying it from what he called the "historic perspective".
From my personal experience I have seen, hundreds of students coming into the UK in the name of studying and ending up in almost all of the London's MacDonald's restaurants, instead of going anywhere near education! In many cases students are either misled by the bogus colleges, or they deliberately enrol themselves into these colleges to extend their student visas. This issue of 'bogus students' has been raised in a recent summit and the British government is going to take tough measure to curb that. The British High Commission in Dhaka, as far as I know , does not usually reject a student who wants to study in a recognised university or a further education college in the UK.
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