Walk-in degrees, sham students and a giant university fraud scandal

Officials from the Romanian Ministry of Internal Affairs told News.ro on Monday that so far, the MAE has not received any request from the British authorities, nor requests for consular assistance from any Romanian in the United Kingdom, in the context of the scandal about an alleged massive fraud in the student loan system in the UK, in which they are Suspected Romanians are involved.

The current structure of the university sector makes scandals inevitable

The reports from the Sunday Times investigation into so-called ‘franchised’ universities, which has uncovered what could be industrial-scale defrauding of the student loan system, is shocking. But it should not, hand on heart, be surprising. And whilst the fundamental root of the problem may well be New Labour’s conscious decision to drive up the number of young people going to university, the more proximate cause is actually the decision by the…

Probe into potential exploitation in university loans system under way

It follows a Sunday Times probe which reports students with ‘no academic intent’ are suspected of fraudulently claiming millions of pounds.

Thousands of students are suspected of fraudulently claiming hundreds of millions of pounds from the UK's university loan system, The Sunday Times reports. A major investigation by the publication…

Walk-in degrees, sham students and a giant university fraud scandal

Applicants are suspected of scamming taxpayers out of hundreds of millions of pounds for courses they don’t intend to take

‘Scam netted £18m from thousands of desperate tenants’ – Court News UK

A gang of rogue letting agents fleeced thousands of students and foreign workers out of their deposits in an £18m scam, a court heard. The […]