UK Immigration Observes A Decade High Indian Student Enrolments
12 Jun 2019
Indian students are ultimately choosing to the UK once again. For almost a decade, the Indian students' number going to the UK every year had been sliding. However, the trend changed in 2017-18, with 19,750 Indian students moving to the UK. It is a notable bounce back from previous year 16,550. It also matched with the
tier 4 (sponsored study) visas number that awarded to Indian nationals rising by 33% to 18,735 in the year closing Sept 2018, the UK home office data reveal.
At its top, in 2010-11, up to 39,090 students from India had enrolled in universities and colleges in the UK. Statistics reveal that over 50 percent of the Indian students were seeking post-graduate degrees in the recent academic year.
Engineering and business continue the top 02 areas of the subject for them. At Newcastle University, for example, business, finance, computer science, biosciences, and engineering are the most successful courses pursued, Alex Metcalfe, international affairs director, said college prep site Careers360.
Viewing these developing interests, universities are making outstanding efforts. The Indian applicants' pool to Queen’s University Belfast has increased 40 percent yearly, Ian Greer, the vice-chancellor, said. So they are examining tie-ups with universities of India, offering joint PhDs and further. Essex Business School is giving scholarships of MBA to Indian students. Increasing work chances are another great lure.
Making Working Simpler
The post-study work visa withdrawal was connected with a drop in global student recruitment in the UK from important markets, prominently India. Within 2010-11 and 2016-17, the higher education students number from India dropped vigorously, noted a statement by the UK’s all-party parliamentary group for global students.
The country is starting to give a gracious welcome to Indians than prior. Post-Brexit, the UK aspires to improve its global student intake levels from 460,000 now to 600,000 every year by the year 2030. As per the new policy stated to go on the floors in the year 2021, these students will be permitted to live for up to 06 months after finishing their graduate or post-graduate education to find a job. For Ph.D. students, the post-study work tenure will prolong to a full year. Students from the EU will no longer have an advantage over global students from other areas.
In early June, Sajid Javid, British home secretary requested for post-work study limitations on foreign students to be lifted. Jo Johnson, Universities minister who had tabled a reform to the government’s immigration law in April, asking for a 02-year post-study work visa right for a global student, rejoiced the show of support.
In May 2019, the UK also stated the innovator and startup visas for entrepreneurs from overseas.
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