The UK Home Office has hit back at calls from British universities for foreign students to be excluded from the government’s immigration targets as a form of “fiddling the figures”.
The coalition is committed to reducing net immigration to below 100,000 people by the end of this parliament. In the year to September 2011, the figure was 252,000. Meeting the target is expected to require cuts to foreign student numbers.
There is no plan to cap student numbers but this week nearly 70 university leaders wrote an open letter to the prime minister requesting “international university students be removed from the net migration statistics”.
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