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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Richard Adams Education editor

YOU WONT BELIEVE: Sunak s student visas clampdown continues boom and bust pattern - You Need To See This

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The last Conservative manifesto pledged to ‘maintain and strengthen our global position in higher education’. Photograph: Lucidio Studio/Getty Images

Rishi Sunak may not go down in history as “the man who destroyed UK higher education,” as one former university leader put it, but the prime minister’s sabre-rattling on international student visas could end up doing just that.

Sunak’s willingness to clamp down on international student numbers coincides with what one expert called a funding crisis for universities that could undermine the entire sector.

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