Language-school checks – answers to the summarising exercise

KEY: Version 1
1h 2k 3f 4b 5i 6d 7a 8e 9g 10j 11c

KEY: Version 2
7a, 4b, 11c, 6d, 8e, 3f, 9g,1h, 5i, 10j, 2k.

KEY: Version 3 – in full
1h There are plans to check whether educational establishments are genuine or not, and this should stop the immigration authorities granting visa applications on false grounds.
2k It seems likely the official list introduced recently will be abolished and replaced by a different one.
3f If foreign students need to be granted a visa to come to the UK they need to be sure to apply to those educational establishments which are on the government’s official list.
4b When officials checked a large number of colleges last year, it found that about 25% of them were not genuine.
5i Some colleges have buildings but do not necessarily provide appropriate lessons for students.
6d The government is concerned that some unscrupulous educational establishments have made it possible for ‘students’ to be able to claim that they are learning English, (so are able to jump the queue of people applying to settle in the UK), even though these students are not in fact studying where or what they claim.
7a The British government should force all schools and colleges to apply to be on the official list of educational institutions.
8e The standard of some teaching colleges has been poor, and such organisations should be forced to close.
9g Problems will not be solved by the DfES creating a new list, unless the criteria and methods used are also improved. It takes time and a lot of official paperwork for colleges to gain official status.
10j The official body for checking that students are serious about their studies has not followed up facts supplied on poor attendance.
11c It is important to enable people choosing language-schools to know which ones have been checked officially, and which ones haven’t.