{"id":186,"date":"2018-07-17T14:49:09","date_gmt":"2018-07-17T13:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zeinalmaha.com\/?p=186"},"modified":"2018-07-29T11:28:31","modified_gmt":"2018-07-29T10:28:31","slug":"scotland-pushes-for-post-study-work-in-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeinalmaha.com\/?p=186","title":{"rendered":"Scotland pushes for post-study work in UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Scottish Affairs Committee has urged the UK government to review its immigration policy to consider Scotland\u2019s \u201ccritical\u201d migration needs, with recommendations including a post-study work scheme.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 860px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"attachment-single-main wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/d1pe6f90ru47yo.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/17100035\/scotland-1607908_960_720-860x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"860\" height=\"375\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a0The Committee emphasised that students should be removed from the net migration target. Photo: kolibri5\/Pixabay<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In its latest report on Immigration and Scotland, the Committee stated that Scotland\u2019s population growth is dependent on inward migration and the ability to attract migrants is crucial for the nation.<\/p>\n<p>Among its recommendations, the Committee called for students to be taken out of the net migration target and for the creation of a Scotland-specific post-study work scheme \u201cin the absence of a UK-wide scheme.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Similar points were raised at the UKCISA conference by Scottish Deputy First Minister John Swinney.<\/p>\n<p>Answering\u00a0<em>The<\/em> <em>PIE<\/em>\u2018s question,<em>\u00a0<\/em>Swinney said that if the attitude towards immigration is not changed, there will \u201cundoubtedly\u201d be damaging economic consequences.<\/p>\n<p>Looming Brexit could place a strain on free movement people from European Union countries who make up a large amount of the Scottish population, Swinney explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are part of our community, they have boosted our population, they have had their children here, they have boosted our birth rates, and for all they have done that has been a big strength for us,\u201d Swinney told <em>The PIE<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Swinney commented that the Westminster government is obsessed with numbers, immigration and surpluses, which causes a problem for Scottish intake of new talent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope\u2026 the cross-play of that damaging impact will encourage the UK government to think differently about this issue because of that and the current trajectory of that policy [is] very damaging for us but, I can assure you that there is lack of discussion and dialogue,\u201d said Swinney.<\/p>\n<p><em>You can refer to the original article at The PIE News by clicking <a href=\"https:\/\/thepienews.com\/news\/scotland-pushes-for-post-study-work-in-uk\/\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Scottish Affairs Committee has urged the UK government to review its immigration policy to consider Scotland\u2019s \u201ccritical\u201d migration needs, with recommendations including a post-study work scheme. In its latest report on Immigration and Scotland, the Committee stated that Scotland\u2019s population growth is dependent on inward migration and the ability to attract migrants is crucial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[11,12,13,14,15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeinalmaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeinalmaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeinalmaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeinalmaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeinalmaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/zeinalmaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211,"href":"https:\/\/zeinalmaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions\/211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeinalmaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeinalmaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeinalmaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}