The UK department of education is launching an investigation into bad practice associated with agents, a minister announced earlier this week.
The Minister for Skills, Apprenticeships and Higher Education, Robert Halfon, said he was “appalled to see the reporting over the weekend, which clearly showed bad practice in the use of agents”.
Halfon was referring to a news article which suggested that international foundation degrees – which are the equivalent to A-Levels – gave international students an unfair advantage over domestic students.
But it also picked up on malpractice by agents as well as questions around the international year one that give international students a pathway directly into the second year of bachelors degrees.
