Editing London Metropolitan University (section)

===UK Home Office/Border Agency action, and consequences===
On 16 July 2012, the [[UK Border Agency]] of the [[Home Office]] suspended the university's "highly-trusted status" with the Border Agency, a status required in order for the university to be eligible to sponsor both new student visa applications as well as existing student visas, for foreign students from outside of the [[European Union]] and the [[European Economic Area]] (or Switzerland). The university was one of three institutions to have such a status suspended.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/immigration/9418013/Ban-on-university-overseas-recruits-after-missing-students-failure.html| title=Ban on university overseas recruits after 'missing' students failure| newspaper=The Telegraph| date=22 July 2012|access-date=28 August 2012| location=London| first=David| last=Barrett}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine| url=http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=420965&c=1| title=Home Office 'to strip' London Met of highly trusted status| magazine=Times Higher Education| date=26 August 2012|access-date=28 August 2012}}</ref>

On 30 August 2012, the university's highly trusted status was revoked,<ref>{{Cite web| url=http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/sitecontent/newsarticles/2012/august/28-LMU-revoked1| title=London Metropolitan University's licence to sponsor students is withdrawn | publisher=UK Border Agency| date=30 August 2012| access-date=31 August 2012}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news| url=http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/news/news-releases/2012-press-releases/revocation-of-highly-trusted-status-for-sponsoring-international-students.cfm| title=Revocation of Highly Trusted Status for sponsoring international students| publisher=London Metropolitan University| date=29 August 2012| access-date=30 August 2012| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120901004350/http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/news/news-releases/2012-press-releases/revocation-of-highly-trusted-status-for-sponsoring-international-students.cfm| archive-date=1 September 2012| url-status=dead| df=dmy-all}}</ref> revoking the university's right to sponsor new visa applications for non-EU/EEA foreign students, as well as revoking the existing visas of the university's pre-existing non-European foreign students, causing them to be excluded from the university, and leaving thousands with the possibility of being forced to leave the country, unless places with alternative institutions and sponsors are secured.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-19419395| title=London Metropolitan University's visa licence is revoked| work=BBC News| date=30 August 2012|access-date=30 August 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.govtoday.co.uk/education/40-higher-education/12446-london-metropolitan-university |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120909233228/http://www.govtoday.co.uk/education/40-higher-education/12446-london-metropolitan-university%7C |archivedate=9 September 2012 |title=London Metropolitan's visa licence revoked|website=GovToday}}</ref>

The Immigration Minister, [[Damian Green]], cited a number of reasons for the decision, including the discovery that more than a quarter of the students in the test sample did not in fact have [[leave to remain]] in the UK, that the university did not have and could not provide sufficient proof of English-language proficiency standards for some of its students, and the fact that the university was unable to confirm the attendance of its students, in some 57% of the sampled cases.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-19419395| title=London Metropolitan University students fear deportation| work=BBC News| date=30 August 2012|access-date=30 August 2012}}</ref>

In September 2012, the university announced it was beginning legal action against the border agency over the licence issue.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-19468774 | work=BBC News | title=London Metropolitan University starts visa legal action | date=3 September 2012}}</ref>

In April 2013, the university regained its licence to sponsor international students for Tier 4 visas.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/news/news-releases/2013-press-releases/international-sponsor-status-restored.cfm |title=International sponsor status restored |access-date=22 April 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130413083107/http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/news/news-releases/2013-press-releases/international-sponsor-status-restored.cfm |archive-date=13 April 2013 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>

The High Court case against Home Office was settled in October 2013 after both parties reached an undisclosed settlement.  Both parties have refused to comment on the specifics of the settlement.  The last minute withdrawal of the case meant that the judicial review against the Home Office, which had been scheduled to start on 17 October 2013, would not proceed any further.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/london-met-stops-legal-action-against-the-government/2008082.article|title=London Met stops legal action against the government|work=Times Higher Education|date=10 October 2013|access-date=16 July 2015}}</ref>

In November 2019, London Metropolitan University released a statement confirmed that University Patron [[Prince Andrew]], [[Duke of York]] had resigned.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.londonmet.ac.uk/news/articles/statement-about-our-patron/|title=STATEMENT: Our Patron|publisher=London Metropolitan University|date=19 November 2019|access-date=9 April 2021}}</ref>