The world’s young people give massive vote of confidence in Brexit Britain

Records tumble as number of international students increases by 34% since 2016

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Numbers have even increased from some EU countries, in blow to EU Commission

In what will surely come as a blow to the EU Commission’s attempts to woo ‘the youth vote’, Brexit Britain is attracting international students in record numbers.

While academics and the BBC whinge about the effect of Brexit on our universities and higher education institutions, the official facts show the opposite to be the case. In the last academic year of 2020/21 the numbers of international students exceeded 600,000 for the first time ever.

Facts4EU.Org presents a summary of the extraordinary rise in the world’s youth flocking to the United Kingdom – and some of these increases are from EU countries.

Brexit Facts4EU.Org Summary

Total international students studying in the UK - 2016-2021

Latest official figures for academic year 2020/21

2016/7 : 450,835
2017/8 : 469,160
2018/9 : 496,110
2019/20 : 556,625
2020/21 : 605,130

[Source: Official data - See bottom of the article.]

The UK is twice as popular as the EU

The 2020/21 total for all first-year students at UK universities was 36% of total student numbers. 64,300 were from the EU and 254,100 from outside the EU.

In the last 10 years the numbers of new students from Italy and Spain increased by 41% and 62% respectively. In 2019, the UK took 12% of the world’s international students. This was more than double the EU average.

According to the latest numbers for 2020/21 for the top 10 most common countries from which the UK’s international students have come since 2016, five EU countries are on the list. These are Italy, France, Romania, Poland and Portugal.

Overseas students were also more likely to be studying full-time. 92% of those were from the EU and 93% were non-EU entrants, compared to 75% of home students.

It isn’t only students, academic staff numbers from the EU have increased since 2016

In 2019/20, there were 70,195 academic staff from overseas at UK universities. This was 31% of all academic staff and 20% more than in 2015/16. 38,410 were from the EU and 31,785 from other countries – in other words more than half are from the EU.

Observations

Teaching academics

Apart from banning free speech on campus and reinventing history, there two other things academics seem to be good at.

Bleating about Brexit
Bemoaning the supposed drop in the numbers of international students and the loss of associated income from tuition fees

In our report above we have shown how international student numbers have increased by more than a third since we voted to leave the European Union. Readers might hope academics would research the facts but it seems not.

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Brexit Facts4EU.Org, Mon 18 July 2022

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Reader Comments 3

1. KB , Monday, July 18, 2022, 11:37:

Hmmm....don't these international students also add to the immigration statistics?
Also it looks to me that in Brexit Britain, universities are a business to make money from rich students all over the world. Our own working class young people should be thinking if they really want to get into £55k debt.
Perhaps the profits they make from the international set should be used to pay tuition fees for our own people (in STEM subjects of course)? I'm not holding my breath.

2. Adam , Monday, July 18, 2022, 12:13:

We may have our disagreements with the EU the people's of Europe should be friends

3. jon livesey , Monday, July 18, 2022, 17:32:

I'd say that this is 605,130 individual decisions that a degree from a UK University beats the competition, despite the cost. Educating overseas students is an export industry with a net benefit of around 25bn - which is obviously difficult to estimate. I would not try to make it more complicated than that. There is a very good Commons Briefing Paper with a lot more detail that was released this week.

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