Overseas students make a major contribution to the UK economy, not just to UK universities. The government's own impact assessment report on the reform of the student immigration system estimated the changes being imposed on student visas would generate a loss of c£2.4 billion over four years.

Almost 5,000 foreign migrants granted visas to study in the UK each year could be refused entry under new powers to weed out bogus students, figures s...

Cardiff University has announced it is investigating allegations that places are being offered to foreign students with lower grades than their UK cou...

Calls for foreign students to be excluded from immigration figures were branded "absurd" and "silly" by Home Office minister Damian Green on Tuesday. ...

Children should not be tested on made-up words like "voo", "terg" and "bim" to check their reading skills, school leaders warned on Monday. As six-...

The UK's immigration minister has stuck to his guns over a controversial student immigration policy which university heads warn will cripple the secto...

British universities could stand to lose out on millions of pounds annually if immigration policies are not changed, it was claimed today. Professo...

For the first time ever, candidates running for the National Union of Students positions have been asked how they intend to represent an increasingly ...

If we value the future of subjects which are seen as necessary to drive the UK economy as being sacrosanct, and indeed as public goods within themselves, then the right-wing media need to leave international students out of their rhetoric.

A students' union has launched a campaign on behalf of international students in protest against the government's immigration policies, which the body...

Government immigration policies are deterring foreign students from studying in the UK, a report released on Thursday claims. The document, which d...

There has not been much good news for international students recently. Everything from the implementation of stricter visa requirements, to the recent...

Plans to unveil the UK's first private university campus in Bangkok have been revealed. The University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) has signed an ...

Police and business leaders have distanced themselves from a suggestion that foreign students face curbs on entering shops in a city where they have b...

Andrew Farrell is an Irishman teaching in South Korea. In the second of a series of Huffington Post articles providing a detailed exploration of forei...

Alex Wilkins spent a year teaching 12 to 16-year-olds English and culture in Eastern China, a placement he secured through the British Council. In ...

The Foreign Office "lobbied" Oxford University to accept Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of the recently deposed dictator, in the hope of improving relatio...

This article can in no way be generalised. I am from a society which has adopted, or is quickly adopting, many western values (to our detriment or not) so it has not hit me as hard except for the freedom of expression which I love and embrace. However, many students from other communities may find what is seen as British culture rather daunting!

More than 450 colleges have been banned from bringing foreign students into the UK under Government plans to crack down on abuse of the immigration sy...

People learning the English language around the world should not adopt the "Queen's English", a linguist has said. Dr Mario Saraceni, of the Univer...

Can international students stand unfriendly Londoners or the constant British rain? Do they embrace the multicultural, fast paced life of London or quickly crave home?

PA -- A registrar has resigned and three other members of college staff have been suspended following allegations that overseas students were cheating...

A university union has issued a warning against putting pressure on staff to spy on their foreign students amid fears it would taint the UK's reputati...

In August this year the Home Secretary Theresa May announced a raft of legislative proposals that would form another front in the Government's campaign to reduce the total number of immigrants entering the UK.