Should Immigrants get FREE education?

[ifuseekamy]

Depends if they want to learn or not. An immigrant who's going to get straight A*s in their GCSEs is better than a British kid who disrupts every lesson and is going to end up failing.

[N!ck]

Depends if they want to learn or not. An immigrant who's going to get straight A*s in their GCSEs is better than a British kid who disrupts every lesson and is going to end up failing.

But if an immigrant goes back to wherever once they've finished education then it was a waste of time and money us educating them as we get nothing back.

[luce]

I think if they come to the UK for education and it's all done above board then yes, aslong as they go back to their own country. Otherwise what happens to their home country is called the "brain drain" say if 100 indains come here to train as doctors and nurses and 100 stay in india to train as a rice grower or something and then indians who came here stayed here the "smarter" people would have been taken from india therefore not benifiting India at all.

If that system as inputted then it would benifit england and indida (or whereever)

@Nick ~ who cares??? We already have enough. These people have nothing like you can't even imagin. Yet half of them have amazing talent it's not all about getting something back to start with it's a long term plan. It's better then sending out millions of pounds of aid and health care out there when something hits. If they have their share of doctors and health care they can stand on their own two feet, isn't that what we want?

[FlyingJesus]

If we need you and your skills you are very welcome, if not then you can go back to wherever you came from.

It is that simple, so simple infact, that nearly the rest of the world can work it.

It's also fairly simple to see that if someone brings their children over then denying them an education isn't exactly likely to make them useful to us in the future. If we're going to keep them here we might as well have them educated and eager to work

the reality is everyone should be treated equally

lol equality doesn't exist, never has and never can

But if an immigrant goes back to wherever once they've finished education then it was a waste of time and money us educating them as we get nothing back.

Generally they'll come here and get educated here because the pay here is far better. If you go all the way through medical school and become a doctor I doubt you'd want to turn down the UK wages for whatever they pay in India and the such like

[leah]

thats the most ridiculous idea ive ever heard. Sure why not? they already scrounge our taxes... lets let them have a free education too? :/ NOT.

[HotelUser]

If the immigrant has citizenship in a country than I feel they should be entitled to all benefits that a citizen born in that country gets.

Not many people are going to get citizenship in a country, get their free post secondary education and then run off to another country. Clearly that's not the case. They get their free education to get a better job, then pay taxes back to the government through that job.

I highly doubt immigrants getting free education adds much to England's deficit.

[ifuseekamy]

But if an immigrant goes back to wherever once they've finished education then it was a waste of time and money us educating them as we get nothing back.

Well they'd produce statistics which is all the government and schools care about. But it's doubtful they'd go through the trouble of emmigrating and claiming citizenship just for the benefits of education. As I said we have more problems with layabout British pupils who'll probably end up on benefits or go to college to claim EMA without doing any of the work.

[ItsDave]

They don't come here for the education. Did you watch the news recently? They intervied someone who tried to cross the border and this immigrant said something along the lines of: "We come to France to go to England. France has nothing for us, Britain? It will give us a free house, free money. It will hand us everything, that is why we try so hard to get to England."

Therefore they make me sick. Well more importantly our Government. If it wasn't so lousy and didn't hand everything to these, people, they wouldn't be trying so bloody hard to get here. This whole country just makes me sick. Immigrant's, Benefit Thieve's (Chavs), Government.

We need to take a good luck at other contries laws, such as France or Germany or Spain? Immigrants have to pass most of these countries to get to us. If we took on some of these laws, then they wouldn't stop. However.

If these laws were then introduced, the current immigrants would be homeless and have nowhere to live, but thus be deported. Our Government needs to be shaken up big time.

[LuketheDuke]

lot of xenaphobia floating around on these boards, I say of course to any person who has British residency.

And i think Ardemax was trying to discuss the view that "Immigrants" seem to all be lumped into the same category when education is discussed.

[-:Undertaker:-]

lot of xenaphobia floating around on these boards, I say of course to any person who has British residency.

And i think Ardemax was trying to discuss the view that "Immigrants" seem to all be lumped into the same category when education is discussed.

Xenophobic because we want basic immigration controls?.