Labour¡¯s shadow business secretary is ¡°open¡± to setting a target to increase overseas students if the party returns to power as the major export industry has been ¡°taken hostage by the ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ Office¡± under the coalition.
The ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ Office has concluded that the student visitor route into the UK is being used as intended and not as a back door route to work or settlement
Ministers should extend student loans to many more part-time students to remedy a ¡°crisis¡± in recruitment, a thinktank commission is set to recommend
Fewer British universities are hitting their overseas student recruitment targets this year in the wake of the government¡¯s visa changes and Indian student numbers have again been hit, according to Universities UK.
A student Islamic society has apologised after a video was posted on its Facebook site claiming the killing of a soldier in Woolwich was a government hoax.
Moving medical education and research funding to the Department of Health would ¡°pose a significant threat to the UK¡¯s leading position¡± in the fields, medical schools have warned George Osborne.
Vince Cable has said any sense of ¡°triumph¡± over new figures showing a decline in student immigration is ¡°absurd¡±, as he issued a strong defence of international student movement
Stay-at-home students who attend a local university should be eligible for cut-price tuition fees of ?5,000 a year, according to an influential commission of higher education experts
The University of Greenwich has launched an investigation into whether there has been extremism on its campuses after confirming that one of the suspects in the murder of a British soldier studied at the institution
Lowering tuition fees to ?6,000 ¨C a policy put forward by Labour - could cost the Treasury the same as the current ?9,000 set-up, a study has claimed.
Universities minister David Willetts has defended the student finance system against criticisms that it is unsustainable and will not bring in the amount of money required to fund the sector long term.
David Willetts has said the estimated public cost of the new student loans system ¡°could rise further¡±, a factor that critics fear could leads to cuts elsewhere in the higher education budget and the redesign of the student support system.
Comedian Johnny Vegas has mounted a heart-felt defence of art school, claiming that the new fees regime will dissuade students from deprived backgrounds studying for creative degrees to the detriment of society.
Universities UK has moved to head off any prospect that the new immigration bill, announced today in the Queen¡¯s Speech, might herald a crackdown on the use of public services by overseas university students.