The APPG for International Students has written the UK cabinet urging for changes needed to “truly maximise the potential of the UK’s education exports sector”.
Writing to six Secretaries of State, including education minister Gillian Keegan, home secretary Suella Braverman and chancellor Jeremy Hunt, APPG co-chairs Lord Karan Bilimoria and Paul Blomfield highlighted further cross-departmental engagement and immigration reform that could help.
Leaders should create “a more ambitious and sustainable target” for international student numbers in the UK, they urged.
The Home Office must be included in cross-departmental engagement to “truly make the IES a success”, they stated. UK sector stakeholders have previously raised concerns that the Home Office was ‘pulling in the opposite direction’ on country’s international education agenda.
