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Number of Indian students in UK on the rise: Envoy

Indo Asian News Service | ByIndo Asian News Service
Aug 25, 2017 11:16 AM IST

British High Commissioner to India Dominic Asquith has said that the number of Indian students in the UK has picked up after a dip in the last few years

Kolkata British High Commissioner to India Dominic Asquith said on Thursday that the number of Indian students in the UK was picking up after going through a decline in the last few years.

The British High Commissioner has said that no attempts have been made by the UK government to hold back foreign students willing to pursue university education in their country.(Getty Images/iStockphoto)
The British High Commissioner has said that no attempts have been made by the UK government to hold back foreign students willing to pursue university education in their country.(Getty Images/iStockphoto)

He added that there was no attempt by the UK government to hold back foreign students willing to pursue university education in their country.

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“There was a decline in the number of Indian students in the UK since the last few years but it has picked back up by 10% in the last year. Ninety per cent of those students are coming to pursue university education in the UK,” Asquith said at an interaction with the students of the Heritage Institute here.

“If anybody has the perception that there is any intention to keep students away, it is not true. Around 90% of the Indians who apply for higher education in the UK get the visa. It was 83% in 2010 and has been going up since then,” he said.

Citing the example of Edinburgh University where 99.7% of the total Indian applicants end up getting through, Asquith said some of the UK-based universities have a remarkable record of Indian students applying and studying there.

He said the drop in the number of Indian students in the UK had not come about because of the change in its student immigration policy but because a number of further education colleges were shut down by the government in 2010 as they were not offering any proper courses.

“In 2010 we found out a large number of further education colleges were a hoax. They were not educating anybody. They never had a course. So we closed them as they were not colleges at all,” Asquith said.

“Back in 2010, there were 19,000 Indian students in the UK of whom 50 % went to further education colleges while the rest went to pursue university education. In today’s time 90 % of the students go for university education while 10% go to pursue higher education courses,” he added.

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