Lord Storey – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Storey on 2015-12-03.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what criteria they use in auditing compliance with Tier 4 licences for non-EU students.

Lord Bates

All Tier 4 licensed sponsors are assessed against criteria set out in the published Tier 4 Guidance for Sponsors. This includes the following four documents:

• Document one – Applying for a Tier 4 licence
• Document two – Sponsorship Duties
• Document three – Tier 4 Compliance
• Appendix D – record keeping

Some of the key criteria includes:

• Ensuring that each sponsor has a genuine and lawful trading presence.
• Ensuring that each sponsor holds the appropriate education oversight with the relevant external inspection body.
• Compliance visits; where checks are undertaken to establish whether an institution’s HR functions are appropriate.
• An annual basic compliance assessment (BCA); where the sponsor must meet demonstrate that their visa refusal, enrolment and course completion rates fall within the outlined requisites.