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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Martin Bentham

Foreign graduate visas are keeping universities afloat - don't cut them, ministers told

Fees paid by international postgraduate students are helping universities in London and other parts of Britain provide more courses and do more research, the government’s migration advisers said on Tuesday as they rejected any curbs on the visas.

The Migration Advisory Committee said the financial contribution paid by foreign graduates studying for higher degrees in this country also made up for losses incurred teaching UK students and that without the money many universities would have to shrink.

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