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<p>The UK remains a highly attractive destination for both EU and non-EU students,
with their numbers remaining at a record high. The total number of international students
(EU and non-EU) studying in the UK has increased from 442,000 in 2016/17 to 458,000
in 2017/18.</p><p>The government fully recognises the important economic and cultural
contribution that EU and international students make to the UK’s higher education
sector. We want that contribution to continue and we are confident – given the world-class
quality of our higher education sector – that it will. We welcome international students
and there continues to be no limit on the number who can come here to study, nor any
plans to limit any institution’s ability to recruit them.</p><p>That is why the government
announced on 21 January that an international education strategy will be produced
by the Department for Education and the Department for International Trade in 2019.
The strategy will set out the government’s ambition for international education, in
which international students play a key role, and plans to support the sector in driving
growth in education exports.</p><p> </p>
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