University College London isn’t the most globally prestigious institution of higher education in the UK, perhaps not even in London (Oxford and Cambridge and, in the capital, Imperial probably win there). But last year it took in enough international students, more than any other British university, to earn half a billion pounds in fees. Call those educational exports, which is what they are, and you only need three UCLs to equal the annual overseas earnings of the entire UK fishing industry that took up so much time in Britain’s Brexit talks with the EU.
倫敦大學學院并不是英國在全球最負盛名的高等教育機構,甚至在倫敦也不是(牛津和劍橋以及首都的帝國大學可能在這方面勝出)。但去年,它招收了足夠多的國際學生,比其他任何一所英國大學都多,從而賺取了5億英鎊的學費。將此教育出口——它們本來就是——你只需要三個倫敦大學學院就能等于整個英國漁業的海外年收入,而英國與歐盟的脫歐談判中,漁業占用了大量時間。