Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Department for Education

Oral Answers to Questions

Tristram Hunt Excerpts
Tuesday 10th November 2015

(9 years ago)

Commons Chamber
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Lord Johnson of Marylebone Portrait Joseph Johnson
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Overall international student numbers are up year on year. We have a competitive offer for international students. We have a world-class higher education sector, with 38 out of the world’s top 100 universities. It is not surprising that international students from all over the world want to come and study at our great universities.

Tristram Hunt Portrait Tristram Hunt (Stoke-on-Trent Central) (Lab)
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I alert the House to my interest in the register. When is the Minister’s Department going to show some leadership and get the Home Office to take students out of the migration figures? This Government are undermining the global reach of our universities, and America, Canada and Australia are benefiting.