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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Sally Weale Education correspondent

UK should embrace foreign students or lose them to rival countries, warns Ucas chief

Ucas form
There are concerns some courses in clearing in the run-up to A-level results day this week are available only to overseas students. Photograph: Russell Hart/Alamy

Britain should warmly welcome international students joining universities across the country or risk losing out to the US, Canada and Australia, the higher education admissions chief has said.

The intervention came amid concerns that domestic students hoping to begin undergraduate courses this autumn could lose out to international applicants. Some courses in clearing in the run-up to A-level results day this week are available only to overseas students.

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