This question was answered on 21st December 2015
All Tier 4 licensed sponsors are assessed against criteria set out in the published Tier 4 Guidance for Sponsors. This includes the following four documents:
- Document one – Applying for a Tier 4 licence
- Document two – Sponsorship Duties
- Document three – Tier 4 Compliance
- Appendix D - record keeping
Some of the key criteria includes:
- Ensuring that each sponsor has a genuine and lawful trading presence.
- Ensuring that each sponsor holds the appropriate education oversight with the relevant external inspection body.
- Compliance visits; where checks are undertaken to establish whether an institution’s HR functions are appropriate.
- An annual basic compliance assessment (BCA); where the sponsor must meet demonstrate that their visa refusal, enrolment and course completion rates fall within the outlined requisites.