Number of foreign students in UK rising

The number of students from China studying in Britain has soared in the past decade, figures show today.
Almost 51,000 Chinese students are taking courses at UK universities - accounting for almost one in six of overseas students.
According to the study published today, the number of students from outside the European Union has more than doubled in the past decade.
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In the past 12 months alone, postgraduate students from India have soared by a third, while numbers from the United States and Hong Kong are also on the rise.
Universities UK, which represents vice-chancellors, said many were taking up places in "economically important" degree courses - such as engineering and the sciences - which were shunned by home-grown school leavers.
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This comes as business leaders complain that too few British teenagers are taking shortage subjects at GCSE and A-level - leaving the economy exposed to China and India. [View Full Article]