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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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David Bond

Restricting foreign students could leave universities on edge of collapse

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Restricting foreign students to reduce record levels of immigration could leave many universities on the edge of collapse, the head of the Government’s migration advisory committee warned on Friday.

Figures released on Thursday showed that net migration to the UK rose to 504,000 in the year to June, driven partly by a post-Covid surge in overseas students coming to Britain.

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