The Home Secretary’s comments last week expressing concerns about the number of international students and their dependants coming to the UK have caused widespread alarm in the education sector.
But they should also be causing alarm in the UK Government.
Those of us who have worked in the sector for several years are concerned that these comments take us back to a different era when Theresa May was in government. This is a period of time that we left behind in March 2019, when the UK Government clearly stated its ambitions to grow international student numbers as part of its International Education Strategy.
