INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS

UK hunting for International Students

UK hunting for International Students

Topic

The topic that is selected for this dissertation to focus upon is UK hunting for international students. This study is pivotal to be undertaken in order to facilitate the hunting of international students more effectively and smoothly. Universities in United Kingdom are immensely focusing on attracting international students and to serve this purpose, they are continuously devising relevant strategies and schemes. It is in the wake of the announcement by the British Government pertaining to the significant cuts being introduced in the funds provided to the universities, as a direct result of which higher education institutions are devising alternative approaches so as to maintain their financial support.

This study is important to be undertaken for it comprehensively identifies the reasons due to which UK is focusing on influx of foreign and international students. Focusing on recent statistics and trends, it will indicate the efficacy of UK programs and schemes, which subsequently will play a role in attracting more international students due to the strengthening of the policy and strategies. The prospect of this study in absolute terms is strong for it will trigger boost in the UK economy in these times of recession, through attracting foreign students. Subsequently, significant portion of these students are most likely to migrate to UK through converting their student visa, as a result of which increased diversity will be attained; the importance of which in any of the fields cannot be denied.

Background

As mentioned above, with the British government announcement of funding cuts worth $950 million over a period of next three years, universities started to look for alternative approaches for financial support. Recently, number of foreign students moving to United Kingdom has started to dwindle with the immigration crackdown being suspected as the problem behind the falling rate. For the first time in around 16 years, number of international students from non-EU countries studying at post-graduate level in UK has fallen, the blame of which is being placed on immigration crackdown by UK government. Through this restriction, numerous students have crossed out UK universities from the list of universities they are considering to enrol into for their post-graduate.

This immigration crackdown is considered as correlated with decreasing enrolment since over the years, non-EU postgraduate in UK universities has risen by more than 10%, on an average, annually. However, in the academic year of 2011/2012; considering the statistics issued by Higher Education Statistical Agency (HESA), 1% drop was recorded. Now, although immigration crackdown might appear as an immediate reason on the superficial level, research in this domain is immensely important to strengthen UK hunting for international students by outlining and highlighting all the loopholes.

It is immensely important considering the fact that international students comprise the major proportion of the post-graduates students studying in UK universities. Subsequently, majority of these foreign students, in contrast to the local students, comprise research teams pertaining to the discipline of engineering, science, technology and ...