EU REFERENDUM – INDEPENDENT FACTS
Uncontrolled Immigration – Education
First Published 15th June 2016
EU Fact – Uncontrolled Immigration
Estimating migration is problematic, but Migration Watch UK state that “Net migration (the difference between those coming to the UK to live for more than a year and those leaving) is currently 323,000. Of this 172,000 came from the EU.
Around half of Europeans come from the old EU15 countries (Western Europe) and the other half from the newer Member States that joined since 2004 (mainly Poland, Romania and Bulgaria)” and that “Net migration from the EU has more than doubled in the last five years and has increased by over tenfold since the new Eastern European members joined in May 2004”.
However, substantially more NI numbers (629,410 ) issued to people from other EU countries in the year ending March 2015 (see impact on Jobs below).
[https://www.businessinsider.com.au/migration-and-national-insurance-number-figures-2015-5/] – Link Removed
So far, I have discussed internal EU migration, but there is also the challenge from trans-Saharan migration to North Africa and the EU
(I intend to write a separate presentation on this topic). North African and sub-Saharan African countries have little genuine interest in curbing emigration, because continuing emigration serves vital political and economic interests in relieving pressure on internal labour markets and generating substantial remittances.
Migrants are often relatively well educated and from moderate
socio-economic backgrounds. They move because of a general lack of opportunities, fear of persecution and violence, or a combination of both and the EU’s no borders policy gives the an almost free run to the UK, which is a destination of choice, because our economy is the only one creating jobs in the EU.
EU Fact – Education
[11. Appropriate basic and cross-cultural education]
Education is affected by EU Funding and uncontrolled migration. EU Funding for education and scientific research are good examples of the UK receiving money back from the EU, but regretfully, the majority of professors and scientist and many of their students, seem unable to comprehend the fact that the origin is the UK. Nor are they able to comprehend that EU’s funding is subject to Grants and that the whole of the EU is competing for them.
Only about 10% of applications are accepted and the value is often so low that the researchers have to live on low wages. The EU defends this as a focus on excellence, but it has been argued that this focus on research excellence, is a smokescreen for funding austerity. It is argued that the UK’s funding for Education and Science could be greater, if the roundabout of our cash to the EU, which is returned to us, less that lost, or distributed elsewhere, was stopped.
[Theguardian.com/higher-education-network ]
The adverse effect of immigration is felt mainly in the England, where most of the migrants are located, but the figures indicate that the migrant children are finding places.
The main additional cost is providing translation services, when the pupil does not speak English. However, there is a growing demand coming from children born to migrants in the UK and this will start to impact primary schools in the next two years, when it is expected that the UK will start to run out of primary school places