Colleges would be banned from sponsoring visa applications if applicants promoted extremist views, and would face consequences for "knowingly or unknowingly" hosting extremist speakers without challenging their views, according to the plans.
The school will start taking applications August 1st, but would-be applicants must have an undergraduate degree with mathematics, engineering, computer science, or a related field.
A responsible government would surely now redesign the application forms for opening a free school so that applicants' personal information isn't strewn all the way through it, and see to it that materials are redacted and released quickly and cheaply.
The amounts would need to be proportionate – we mustn't penalise legitimate visa applicants who will struggle to get hold of the money.
No verbal or written correspondence will be entered into with unsuccessful applicants although unsuccessful applicants may apply to other selective Guardian Masterclasses.
In a clear signal the Rudd government is preparing for a crackdown on people smugglers ahead of the federal election, Carr said his department was preparing "up to date" information for the immigration tribunals about the political situation in the countries from which refugee applicants come, so they did not approve those who had no genuine fear of persecution.
Applicants will then have three months in which to lodge their bids, by an as yet unnamed date in February 2007.
Bataille said the grace period was being offered to accommodate people from different time zones and to deal with any technical problems that might result from a last-minute rush of applicants.
But it's hard to recruit GPs now because of the pressure – our practice recently spent around £5,000 on advertising a position and only got two applicants.
He added: "The whole of immigration control is based on the presumption that applicants are guilty until proven innocent.
So while Theo van Rompay, deputy director of Parts, acknowledges that it is essentially a school for those who "decide their place is on the stage", and while Juilliard hand-picks its annual intake of 24 students from an already highly trained group of applicants, the philosophy of the UK's top institutions is that the dance industry is about far more than performance.
