UK ministers scrap foreign students target in shift to overseas hubs strategy

Government replaces recruitment goal with plan to increase ‘education exports’ to £40bn a year by 2030Ministers are scrapping target numbers for international students in the UK and will instead focus on encouraging universities to open hubs abroad, as part of a plan to bring British education to people “on their own doorsteps”.The government’s new international education strategy will set a target of increasing global “education exports” to £40bn a year by 2030, replacing the previous target – set in 2019 – of recruiting 600,000 international students a year to study in the UK. Continue reading...