So much for retaining the best and most brilliant in the UK

[varsh009]

I wanted your opinion about this. The home office wants to retain the best and most brilliant in the UK but in their new forms for Tier 2 (or even Tier 1 PSW) they ask scholarship holders (who need to be the best and most brilliant to get the scholarship in the first place) to get permission from their scholarship awarding bodies which makes it so so much harder to harder for them to stay over. Why did they do this if they want the very best to stay over?

[geriatrix]

Because UKBA does not want to get into a legal hassles when granting permission to a sponsored candidate to remain in the UK in case there is a legal contract between the applicant and (sponsorship) awarding body that does not permit the applicant to remain / live / work in the UK after completion of the course for which the applicant has / had been sponsored for.

Just one of (perhaps) many reasons. IMHO.

[rbk1597]

Almost ALL of these Scholarships are awarded after the candidate certifies that they will return to their home country to contribute/work and try to improve things.
If UKBA allows such persons to remain, that would be allowing them to breach their scholarship agreement.
If they had said they will not return after their studies, they otherwise would not get the scholarship.

[Greenie]

I would also beg to differ that just because a student is sponsored by their government this means they are "the best and most brilliant". If this was the case why don't all government sponsored students go to the best universities and come out with the best degrees? In many countries, government sponsored students are just those who work for the government and or/are amonst the priveleged elite in their sociey, nothing to do with merit.