The latest official figures for net migration in the UK have been published and are reported here on the BBC website. The scale of the number of overseas students coming into the UK on student visas took me by surprise - The number of visas issued to students also went up by 35% to 362,015 - a factor behind the increasingly competitive and difficult task of winning places at many UK universities - the admissions process is now a truly global process.

The Financial Times reports that “The number of students accepted via the Ucas system from China, the largest single source of students from outside the UK, for this year is 7,752, up from 6,845”

I might use this article as a way of encouraging students to pick out organisations / bodies with a vested interest in the migration debate - there are two or three good ones included in the BBC news article and others can be located by using some of the external news links provided.