The PIE News

APRIL 12, 2024

New visa salary thresholds coming into force in the UK have worried business leaders that a “hike in wages” could deter international graduates from settling in the country. Bell Ribeiro-Addy, MP for Streatham, pointed out how the rule would essentially mean only the highest 30% of earners can now bring their partner to join them in the UK.

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The PIE News

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The UK will review the Graduate Route to “prevent abuse” and “protect the integrity and quality of the UK’s outstanding higher education sector”, the home secretary has announced. “Immigration policy must be fair, consistent, legal and sustainable.”

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The PIE News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The Passport to Progress report , published by think tank representing the UK’s entrepreneurial community The Entrepreneurs Network and global education non-profit ABE Global , urges government to rethink its migration policy. To break this cycle, the UK needs to invest more in innovation.

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The PIE News

JANUARY 4, 2024

The UK Home Office kicked off 2024 with a comms campaign stating they are “fully committed to seeing a decisive cut in migration” with slogans such as “stop the boats” being used alongside reminders that changes to student dependant rules are “now in force”. But the UK is not alone in this debate.

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The PIE News

JANUARY 31, 2024

A former international student from Nigeria, who settled in the UK after graduation, has been elected as the first African lord mayor of the British city of Leeds. Leeds is the UK’s fourth largest city and second largest civic authority serving a population of over 800,000 people. I was such a daddy’s girl,” she said. “At

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The next UK government should work more closely with universities to achieve economic growth and maintain the managed rise of international student numbers, according to the body representing 142 institutions across the country. International students make a net economic contribution of more than £40 billion a year to the UK economy.

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The PIE News

MARCH 8, 2023

The UK public’s concern around overall migration levels “appears far more muted” now than compared with the time before the Brexit referendum, a key report into the country’s migration system has suggested. The Immigration after Brexit: Where are we going?

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HEPI

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Take the political discussion on immigration and recruitment of international students – universities across Europe are increasingly becoming collateral damage in this broader political discourse around immigration. Speaking to university leaders, the rhetoric surrounding immigration is damaging to perceptions in overseas key markets.

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The PIE News

APRIL 4, 2024

In what will be an election year for much of the Western world, governments are tightening their immigration rules related to student recruitment to address public concerns over the strain that significant student immigration can place on local housing and employment markets, and public services.

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The PIE News

JANUARY 10, 2024

Political debates around immigration and negative rhetoric towards minority groups will be closely observed around the globe, including by potential international students, warn policymakers, as the world faces a bumper election year. Elections can have both short- and long-term implications for the flow of international students.

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The PIE News

MAY 25, 2023

Non-EU international students have driven a rise in emigration out of the UK while the number of students bringing dependants doubled in 2022, according to new data from the Office for National Statistics. In 2022, 361,000 people came to the UK on study-related visas, an increase from 301,000 in 2021.

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The PIE News

MARCH 28, 2024

May 14 2024 is the day the Migration Advisory Committee will return its verdict on the UK’s graduate visa and one man has been thrust into the spotlight, chair of the committee, Brian Bell. We’re going to take that to mean unlawful activity, in other words, breaching of the immigration rules” he told the Westminster forum.

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The PIE News

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Lord Bilimoria has criticised the government’s latest immigration policy statement and the detrimental effect it is having on India-UK relations and the wider economy. Bilimoria first proposed a two year post-study visa for the UK to the House of Lords back in 2007. It feels like a bit of deja vu,” recalled Arora.

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The Immigration Health Surcharge for students applying to study in the UK is set to rise by 66% when it increases from £470 to £776 for students on February 6. The PIE spoke to recent graduates about the NHS surcharge and the rising cost of application for students wanting to access the UK.

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The PIE News

MARCH 13, 2024

Sector bodies have expressed “deep concern” about the timeline requested by the home secretary for the Migration Advisory Committee to report the findings of its review into the UK Graduate Route.

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

With international student enrolment likely to fall dramatically this year, UK universities can no longer rely on overseas fees to fill government research deficits, the president of King’s College London has said. The UK has the lowest contribution to higher education of any OECD country. In 2021, the higher education sector spent £5.6

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

A UK government-backed scholarship awardee has called for the country’s new home secretary to be more welcoming to international students and widen Graduate Route opportunities for students from modest backgrounds. Increases in bureaucracy costs were announced during Braverman’s tenure earlier this year.

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The PIE News

APRIL 24, 2024

“Prime minister Modi, if re-elected for a third term, is likely to continue his efforts to promote India as a global education hub,” Ashish Jaiswar, an international education expert based in the UK, told The PIE News. Polamarsetty suggested that improvements would have to come with Canada making the first move.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

International students continued to contribute to increases in net migration to the UK in 2023, but new figures from the Home Office suggest growth is stabilising. Meanwhile, students and their dependants made up 39% (378,000) of long-term non-EU immigrants to the UK in the year ending June 2023, the Office for National Statistics estimated.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Data from one of the UK’s major postgraduate recruitment specialists has recorded a decline in interest in masters opportunities in the country among prospective international students. The data shows that while interest in the UK has nearly halved in percentage-point terms, the US has nearly doubled.

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The PIE News

JULY 18, 2023

Stakeholders are accusing the government of treating migrants to the UK, including international students, as “cash cows” amid lofty health surcharge fee increases and the promise of visa fee rises. The UK is already perceived as having high immigration costs relative to other nations. The rise is equivalent to a 65% increase.

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

“People have mis-sold education as immigration and employment,” said Krishnaraj, a factor he said has led to countries such as Australia , the UK and most recently Canada , tightening immigration rules. In November 2023, founding VC at OP Jindal Global University, C.

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

New analysis demonstrating the “extraordinary” contribution international students make to the UK economy – and students’ appetite to look elsewhere – shows “speculation comes at a cost”, a key stakeholder has said. When they go home, they are ambassadors for the UK around the world.

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The PIE News

DECEMBER 5, 2023

All around a growing debate about immigration was catching international students in its wake. So when UK PM Theresa May said, “If you believe you’re a citizen of the world, you’re a citizen of nowhere…” we answered with the evidence. Ten years ago I sat in a pub in Sheffield with international students.

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The PIE News

MARCH 19, 2024

“Given the proximity of election and the way in which students are unfortunately ensnared in the debate about immigration, that’s so heated, it’s going to be a dangerous and fraught period over the next few months.” “The timing is coordinated and choreographed around immigration and visa announcements.

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The PIE News

JANUARY 30, 2024

The NHS Surcharge and working hour cap for international students should be scrapped, the UK’s National Union of Students has said. The UK should also rejoin the Erasmus+ program, which it left when it left the European Union. The post UK: NUS calls for NHS Surcharge & work hour scrap appeared first on The PIE News.

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The PIE News

JANUARY 15, 2024

Having formerly cherry-picked international STEM talent from the graduate pool in Cambridge for Goldman Sachs and later for Cantab Capital Partners – a firm he described as the world’s ‘geekiest’ hedge fund – he knows first hand the long-term value of attracting people at an early age to study in the UK. “It’s

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The PIE News

APRIL 29, 2024

The UK’s Education Committee has launched an inquiry into international students in English universities. “That the UK is the third most popular destination for international students is a source of pride and a credit to the strength of our world class universities,” said MP Robin Walker, chair of the Education Committee.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Stakeholders in the UK sector are reporting increasing numbers of international students dropping out soon after enrolment in order to accept employment offers in the care sector. New vacancies for care workers and health professionals in the UK with instant job placement. Attention all international students! Can you tell me how?”.

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HEPI

MARCH 21, 2024

This blog was kindly authored for HEPI by Harry Anderson , Deputy Director of Universities UK International. With Westminster having ‘taken back control’ in 2019, they designed a more liberal, more open immigration system encouraging more people to come to live, work, and study in the UK.

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Since the start of my journey to the UK as an international student, there has been noticeable inflation in the cost of study, including hiking tuition fees, visas, language exams and now the health surcharge. Proving English proficiency The UK is a leading study destination primarily because the language of tuition is English.

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The PIE News is launching a campaign urging the UK government to commit to maintaining the right for international graduates to stay in the country for two years after completing their courses to gain work experience. British citizens or UK residents can sign the petition here.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

MARCH 31, 2024

Exclusive: Chris Skidmore says restrictions on international students risk a funding crisis Analysis: from boom to bust on international students The Conservative party’s “scorched earth” immigration policies risk UK universities becoming increasingly reliant on students from China to avoid financial crisis, a former universities minister has said.

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The PIE News

DECEMBER 19, 2023

As a focus on immigration increases around the world, young people entering and leaving a country before and after study tend to be evaluated in financial rather than educational terms. We need a shift in mindset from immigration to education. So, where should we begin? First of all, we do not begin in a neutral space.

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The PIE News

JANUARY 4, 2024

A controversial immigration law has been passed in France, with some implications for international students, including an extra financial layer to studying in the country. France is not alone in tightening its restrictions on dependants, with the UK’s ban on international students bringing dependants brought into play on January 1.

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The PIE News

MARCH 13, 2023

The Irish Immigration Authority has approved Learning Resource Network’s International English Language Competency Assessment for use in student visa applications. It offers two routes, Academic and General Training, and is recognised by universities and employers in several countries, such as the UK, Malta and Spain.

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The PIE News

APRIL 11, 2024

The UK’s higher education sector has faced dark clouds recently. Policy changes – both proposed and already implemented – have elicited concern from corners of the UK HE market about the continued appeal of the UK as a premier study destination for international students.

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