Tuesday 27, November 2012

Your Latest Foreign Students News

Hello and welcome everyone to a very wet and soggy edition of this week’s newsletter. Whilst the rain in Britain has been pretty much constant over the weekend, the London Mayor Boris Johnson has been in India. He has been doing everything he can to encourage international students to the UK, and you can find out how below.   

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Boris Johnson Welcomes Foreign Students

London Mayor Boris Johnson has been in India this week promoting British universities and strengthening ties with their Indian counterparts. However, he has also used it as an opportunity to welcome international students from around the world to study in London, and to slam the government’s recent changes to international student visas. 

Many fear that the global reputation of British universities has suffered recently, amid fears that with the visa changes and the London Met situation, overseas students would no longer feel welcome. The Mayor appeared to subscribe to this idea, saying: 

“The policy on visas has been sending out the wrong signals. The worry is they have been a little bit put off by some of the mood music coming out of the Government. You’ve got to be very careful that you’re not doing stuff that actually deters foreign students. India has a glorious tradition of sending students to London, from Nehru to Ghandi onwards, and we want to make sure we preserve that.”

To back his words up, he has written to both Theresa May, the Home Secretary and Vince Cable, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, asking for students to be removed from the overall migration figures used by the British government.

India has a population of 1.2 billion people, and half of them are under the age of 25, making it the perfect country to target for growth at British universities. Boris has emphasised London as a study option for the Indian students, particularly during his visit to Amity University, south of Delhi.

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