UK faces backlash as Indian universities do not characteristic in new graduate scheme

The UK authorities is dealing with a backlash after not one of the Indian Universities featured in a brand new scheme for graduates.

No Indian University made it to the listing of the UK authorities’s new scheme for graduates.

In a brand new scheme, the UK authorities has introduced that graduates from the world’s high 50 non-UK universities can work in Britain below the brand new High Potential Individual (HPI) visa. Even although not one of the Indian Universities was featured, two universities from Mainland China and two from Hong Kong made it to the listing.

The Chinese University of Hong Kong, University of Hong Kong (HKU), Peking University and Tsinghua University had been on the listing. The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) is a brand new entrant on the listing, the Indian Express reported.

However, no Indian college has made it to the listing. The listing launched for 2020-2021, when the primary coronavirus instances had been reported the world over, featured three Chinese universities, however no Indian college was added. The variety of Chinese universities elevated to 4 within the following yr, whereas Indian universities nonetheless didn’t handle to discover a spot.

The UK authorities has been known as out over the problem, as not one of many IITs made it to the Top 50 listing.

“The HPI route is an uncapped two-year UK work visa (three years for those with a PhD) for early career stage graduates. Graduates must have graduated from an eligible international university in the five years immediately before their application,” the Times of India reported.

The eligibility criterion requires an establishment to be featured within the high 50 of not less than “at least two of the three ranking lists produced annually by QS, Times Higher Education and the Academic Ranking of World Universities.”

Even although the scheme is open to everybody, the lists of eligible universities exclude universities in Africa, Latin America and South Asia.