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1: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) But another factor has been rising numbers of overseas students and workers and their dependants, which - Speech Link
2: Baroness Hamwee (LD - Life peer) , but not all, of whom similarly cannot bring dependent family members—and about young people.On students - Speech Link
3: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) We expect to see a surge of applications in the summer as students tend to apply for their visa in advance - Speech Link
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1: Yousaf, Humza (SNP - Glasgow Pollok) Attainment in Scotland is at a record high and record numbers of students from deprived areas are entering - Speech Link
2: Ross, Douglas (Con - Highlands and Islands) Scottish education will continue to fall down the international rankings. - Speech Link
Asked by: Philippa Whitford (Scottish National Party - Central Ayrshire)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential financial impact of trends in the level of enrolments of international students on universities.
Answered by Luke Hall - Minister of State (Education)
The government seeks to ensure that there is a fair and robust migration policy, whilst maintaining the UK’s place as a top destination for the best and brightest students from around the world. The department remains committed to the ambitions set out in the government’s International Education Strategy to host 600,000 international students per year and to increase the value of education exports to £35 billion per year, both by 2030.
The department expects the UK to remain a highly attractive study destination. The UK has four universities in the top ten, and 17 in the top 100, worldwide. The UK has a highly sought after higher education (HE) experience, which is respected by students across the globe. The department is hugely proud to have met its international student recruitment ambition two years running.
However, the level of legal migration remains too high. As a result, on 4 December 2023, the government announced a new package of measures to reduce net migration and curb abuse and exploitation of the country’s immigration system.
The Office for Students (OfS), the independent regulator of the HE sector in England, continues to work closely with the Home Office, Department for Business and Trade, and other governmental departments to assess the impact of these changes on HE providers.
Universities are autonomous institutions responsible for managing their own budgets. The department also works closely with the OfS to understand the evolving landscape, including on risks relating to international students.
Found: Higher education around the world: Comparing international approaches and performance with the UK
Apr. 30 2024
Source Page: Home Secretary action delivering major cut in migrationFound: The number of dependants accompanying students to the UK has drastically fallen by almost 80%, with more
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1: Jonathan Gullis (Con - Stoke-on-Trent North) Groups such as Combat 18 and Stoke-on-Trent Infidels always seek to exploit domestic and international - Speech Link
2: Naz Shah (Lab - Bradford West) review’s proposal for buffer zones around schools, to curb protests and provide support for staff and students - Speech Link
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1: Sarah Owen (Lab - Luton North) I have just met the amazing bright, talented students at Luton Sixth Form College who are visiting today - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) taken to ensure that the scrambling that took place to protect freedom of British speech and media from international - Speech Link
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1: Preet Kaur Gill (LAB - Birmingham, Edgbaston) import ban on something that we make here and sell overseas, because that is just not allowed under international - Speech Link
2: Preet Kaur Gill (LAB - Birmingham, Edgbaston) We will need to do a lot of training—and not just training, but recruitment of new apprentices, students - Speech Link
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1: Viscount Camrose (Con - Excepted Hereditary) Research Collaboration Advice Team, which provides advice to academia on national security risks in international - Speech Link
2: Lord Young of Cookham (Con - Life peer) Some 25% of the students, or 10,000, at UCL are Chinese, which risks the infiltration of academic research - Speech Link
3: Lord Reid of Cardowan (Lab - Life peer) there not a real problem here—that new technology and advances in scientific knowledge not only require international - Speech Link
4: Baroness Smith of Newnham (LD - Life peer) think that Iran and other countries might be a problem—not by giving funding, but by researchers and students - Speech Link
5: Baroness Manningham-Buller (XB - Life peer) to vice-chancellors of the threat from Chinese espionage in universities, much of which will be by students - Speech Link
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1: None Wearing a different hat, I was the president of the International Association for Suicide Prevention, - Speech Link
2: None One of the things that we at the International Association for Suicide Prevention have been calling for - Speech Link
3: None Scotland leads the way on this, and, with my International Association for Suicide Prevention hat on, - Speech Link
4: None the highest possible standards in general medical practice, supporting GPs from their time as medical students - Speech Link