Rishi Sunak is considering the move amid concern that the so-called 'graduate route' is being exploited as a back door route to a new life in the UK.
Comes after figures show net immigration remains far above 2019 election levelForeign students could be barred from taking 'low quality' postgraduate courses in Britain under new plans to cut immigration.
The Prime Minister is set to order a clampdown on the use of recruitment agents by universities seeking to attract more foreign students. But he is also looking at proposals to limit graduate visas to only the most prestigious courses Chancellor Jeremy Hunt said on Friday that existing changes to the immigration rules were already cutting immigration and suggested there was no need to go further in limiting student numbers.
Despite this, Whitehall sources confirmed the PM is examining options to 'tighten' the graduate route so that it is open to only the 'brightest and the best'.
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