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The government is being urged not to implement immigration proposals that it is claimed could have a damaging effect on UK science, engineering and wider academia.
Projects focussing on graphene and research into the human brain have won what the European Commission has called 鈥渢he largest research excellence award in history鈥.
Government rhetoric over visas is to blame for a perception that the UK is not a good place for international students to set up a business, according to a recent survey
Post-study employment changes and a shrinking 鈥榚xpat premium鈥 prompt second thoughts about value of overseas study. Joanna Sugden reports from New Delhi
Scholarship has long been international but the current vision of a 鈥榳orldwide鈥 academy of rootless student-consumers and national economic competition is as contradictory as it is immoral, argues Thomas Docherty
The UK higher education sector has concluded that an insurance scheme to guarantee international students a fees refund or alternative places should their course or university close down is 鈥渆ssential鈥.
Theresa May, the home secretary, has been accused by a vice-chancellor of acting 鈥渓ike a Dalek鈥 and of 鈥渃asting a dark cloud over British higher education鈥 in her refusal to change course on student visas.
The sector is considering protecting its reputation among international students by creating an insurance scheme that would provide compensation or transfer to other courses for those affected if their universities fail or can no longer teach them.
