European Union students living in England and Wales are much more likely to be employed than those from outside the EU, figures suggest, with rates highest among those from Eastern Europe.
Findings from the last census show there were 373,600 non-UK-born, non-UK passport-holding international students in England and Wales on 21 March 2021.
A third of them were employed at that time – compared with approximately a quarter of people aged 18 years and over in full-time education – but this rate varied significantly depending on where they came from.
Almost half (47 per cent) of EU-born international students were employed, while just a quarter of their peers born outside the EU were.
