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Visa applications from overseas students seeking to study at universities are up 4 per cent despite the government’s toughening of the visa regime.

Recreating a two-tier system is only benefiting ‘the best’, says Malcolm Gillies

A London-based private provider is to offer pathway programmes with a consortium of Northern universities, enabling international students to get on to degree courses

Ability concerns at University of Exeter business school forces rethink on international intake

University of East London asks Sir David Melville to investigate international activities

51�Թ� Office bid would set huge hurdles for overseas students seeking private rentals, warns UKCISA

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Work between the UK research councils, Indian government and business can be improved by fixing practical barriers to collaboration, a report says.

51�Թ� Office ‘looking into’ partnership between Glyndwr University and London School of Business and Finance

Olive Tree Programme offers ‘special space’ for cohort drawn from both sides of conflict zone

Not all institutions have clear rules on international students employing translators and other help

Australia is the most expensive place in the world to study for international students, followed by the United States and the UK, says new research.

Academics at leading South Korean universities are the world’s best at attracting funding from business, a new study says.

Overseas universities are hoping to snap up UK students left without a university place on A-level results day.

The UK Council for International Student Affairs (UKCISA) has raised the prospect that universities could “bulk buy” annual £200 health levies for international students.

Graeme Wilkinson left Wales to head a private institution that was more familiar than it first appeared

Sweden aims to rebuild faltering overseas student numbers

Online comments show no room for complacency

Drive to raise national profile yields opportunities for English speakers

British universities may benefit from local clubs’ international exposure

Data on what each UK university will charge next year show how the cost of study can vary wildly

Government emphasises international students’ economic benefits

The state must reinstate working rights for all overseas students, argues William Hunt

The government has said it is “realistic” for UK international student numbers to grow up to 20 per cent over five years under current visa rules

The archives of the British Universities North America Club have been saved by the Bodleian Library following a 51�Թ� appeal

Young academics quit their day jobs to document alternative higher education projects around the world

The 51�Թ� Office has confirmed it will be rolling out a £8,000 premium visa service for institutions from today.

Planned outpost at Queen’s Hill uncertain after concerns over land use protest

Minerva aims to reinvent the university as a global experience of ‘Ivy League’ education

The subcontinent plans to create capacity for an extra 10 million students in five years, with particular emphasis on quality of education. But how?

A group of Conservative MPs want to limit the number of international students allowed at all but the “top” 30 universities in the UK.

Major study quantifies price of immigration regulation

David Cameron has told David Willetts to build the UK’s offer to overseas students into a more persuasive “package” and urged him to attract more foreign universities to Britain.

Cardiff v-c Colin Riordan tells sector to support Europe if a referendum is held

Danny Dorling considers how population change influences the shape and direction of higher education in fundamental ways

International students coming to the UK could have to pay at least £200 a year to use the National Health Service under plans unveiled by the government.

A deal to bring together early-career researchers from the UK and Kazakhstan to explore potential joint projects has been struck as part of the prime minister’s visit to the central Asian state.

The US Senate has approved an immigration reform bill that could grant students and graduates who were brought into the country illegally as children the right to citizenship.

The number of EU students participating in the Erasmus scheme is set to almost double.

Government’s latest scheme already seen as insult abroad

UCL celebrates 150th anniversary of arrival of noblemen who modernised their country

Those once threatened with deportation can’t leave, v-c tells conference

The coalition’s aim to reduce net migration to the “tens of thousands” by 2015 makes more than half of international students in the UK feel less welcome, according to a new survey.

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Foreign academics had to account for their whereabouts each week, university master complains

More scholarships and internships will boost graduates in the business world, says chief executive Martin Davidson

Diverse university models and academic freedom are key to resilience, participants hear

Howard Davies and Maria Zhivitskaya say critics of a new law allowing foreign-language instruction are fighting lost Proustian battles

Western universities scramble to spot fraudulent applications from China’s hypercompetitive students

The 51�Թ� Office has concluded that the student visitor route into the UK is being used as intended and not as a back door route to work or settlement

Critics of university deal point to repression in Gulf state

Row over use of language in sector a moot point, study finds

Business secretary will argue against sector cuts and for extra investment

Mayor confident in capital’s academic brand values

The academy must repel UKIP’s charges, argues Christopher Phelps

Fewer British universities are hitting their overseas student recruitment targets this year in the wake of the government’s visa changes and Indian student numbers have again been hit, according to Universities UK.

How Bashir Makhoul explores through art the plight of his countrymen

Funded young researchers refused entry to UK, professional body warns

Vince Cable has said any sense of “triumph” over new figures showing a decline in student immigration is “absurd”, as he issued a strong defence of international student movement

Net migration to the UK has fallen again mainly thanks to a 23 per cent drop in the number of students coming to the country to study.