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‘Pile them high’: how foreign student recruiters make millions

Whistleblower reveals secret strategies used to recruit lucrative foreign students with poor grades into Britain’s top universities and how UK students are losing out

w/Jonathan Calvert

thetimes.co.uk/article/684930…

Brits need straight As to get into prestigious uni courses, but rich overseas students can buy their way in via secret routes despite low grades 🫰🎓

Investigation in The Times and The Sunday Times with George Arbuthnott Jonathan Calvert who went undercover to find out how it works 👇

thetimes.co.uk/article/c19d04…

Read Jonathan Calvert, George Arbuthnott and Venetia Menzies's full story here:
thetimes.co.uk/article/cash-f…

INSIGHT UNDERCOVER INVESTIGATION:

Britain’s top universities are handing degree places to high-fee paying foreign students on far lower grades than those required of UK applicants

With Jonathan Calvert

Click below for full story:

thetimes.co.uk/article/cash-f…

Jonathan Calvert
Are you listening to the #CovidInquiryUK and ticking off the facts so excellently catalogued in this book? Every MP and Civil Servant making decisions on emergencies should be given a copy.

David Rigby 💙 Jonathan Calvert George Arbuthnott It was reading that book that prompted the writing of ‘Pandemonium’ in the first place. An amazing piece of research.

If you've read 'Failures of State' (Jonathan Calvert & George Arbuthnott, March 2021) - and you should - nothing will surprise you about evidence to the Covid Inquiry today.
But you'll still be furious.

PODCAST: The Secret Files that Expose a Multi-Billion Pound Cover Up at HS2

We take you behind the scenes inside our investigation w/Jonathan Calvert Luke Jones

Produced by James Shield

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PODCAST: The Secret Files that Expose a Multi-Billion Pound Cover Up at HS2

We take you behind the scenes inside our investigation w/@garbuthnott Luke Jones

Produced by James Shield

thetimes.co.uk/article/hs2-bi…

Revealed … the secret files that expose a multibillion-pound cover-up at HS2. Whistleblowers allege the escalating costs of the high speed line were deliberately kept secret from the public and parliament. With ⁦George Arbuthnott⁩

thetimes.co.uk/article/5d44ea…

REVEALED: Secret files expose a multibillion-pound cover-up at HS2
Bosses allegedly shred documents, sack whistleblowers and use misleading projections to keep HS2 alive and cash coming. The result was a ‘fraud against the British people’ - w/Jonathan Calvert

thetimes.co.uk/article/hs2-bi…

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🔺 EXCLUSIVE: Russell Brand has been accused of rape and sexual assaults by women who have broken their silence on alleged attacks between 2006 and 2013

This is a joint investigation by The Sunday Times, The Times and Channel 4 Dispatches

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Rosamund Urwin
Charlotte Wace
Paul Morgan-Bentley