The polytechnic has cancelled agreements with KC Overseas, UpGrad Education and Leap GeeBee.Metropolia's former partners claimed that foreign students would not need personal savings to cover living and housing expenses in Finland. Image: Lukas Rusk / YleYle News9.5. 16:44Metropolia University of Applied Sciences has terminated its partnerships with three companies involved in recruiting overseas students to study in Finland.The polytechnic has cancelled agreements with KC Overseas, UpGrad Education and Leap GeeBee.Metropolia said its decision followed an exposé by Yle's investigative unit MOT as well as its own review of education agents.Simo Mustila, Metropolia’s deputy chief executive, said the institution actively monitors the activities of its recruitment agents.Last December, MOT revealed how education agents used by Finnish universities had lured students to Finland with misleading claims about the job market and language requirements.Some students have since fallen into serious financial difficulty after assuming they would be able to pay for their costly studies by working in Finland.Recordings obtained by MOT showed Metropolia's former partners claiming, among other things, that foreign students would not need savings to cover living and housing expenses in Finland.MOT also uncovered problems in the conduct of education agents used by LAB University of Applied Sciences, which operates in Lahti and Lappeenranta.Unlike Metropolia, LAB has not decided to terminate its cooperation agreements, according to vice-rector Mari-Anna Suurmunne.The government is meanwhile looking to tighten income requirements for students arriving from outside the EU. It has proposed that, in the future, a student's family would only be able to apply for residence after the student has lived in Finland for a year. Under current rules, family members may apply immediately.The stated aim is to prevent situations in which families relocate to Finland without a realistic understanding of the country's cost of living.Watch the Yle MOT documentary A Hoax Called Finland subtitled in English here.