The British government announced on Monday that because of “significant abuse” of visa procedures for foreign students, it will conduct a new review of the system, the Guardian reported. The move follows the release of new statistics showing that last year the number of visas issued to international students grew by a third over the previous year, to more than 300,000, an increase that some have seized on “as evidence of bogus ‘back-door’ immigration through the student visa system,” Times Higher Education reported. The student-visa system was introduced just two years ago and revised this year following a review conducted by the previous British government, and suspected abuses of the system have already prompted the suspension of student-visa applications from Nepal, northern India, and Bangladesh, the BBC reported. According to the Guardian, despite the recent rise, “the number of students who came in last year is significantly lower than three years ago,” before the current system came into effect.