Venezuela stops funds to students in Ireland

Venezuela has moved to block its citizens studying at English language schools in Ireland following the growing scandal around the standards applied by some companies.

Students will be prevented from getting visas to travel here to learn English and those already here, are facing restricted access to financial support from families in their home country.

The move by Venezuela came after a number of scandals emerged at English language colleges including the controversy at Eden College where its liquidator, Anthony Fitzpatrick, has applied to freeze the assets of its directors.