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<p>The government fully recognises the important economic and cultural contribution
that EU and international students make to the UK’s higher education sector. The government
welcomes international students and there continues to be no limit on the number who
can come here to study, and there are no plans to limit any institution’s ability
to recruit them.</p><p> </p><p>The UK remains a highly attractive destination for
non-EU students with their numbers remaining at record highs, with over 170,000 non-EU
entrants to UK higher education institutions for the seventh year running. The UK
is a world-leading destination for study, with four universities in the world’s top
10 and 16 in the top 100 – second only to the USA. The government actively promotes
study in the UK through the GREAT Campaign and to over 100 countries through the British
Council.</p><p> </p><p>In the Immigration White Paper, published on 19 December 2018,
the government proposed to increase the post-study leave period for international
students following completion of studies to 12 months for those completing a PhD,
and to six months for all full-time postgraduate students and undergraduate students
at institutions with degree awarding powers. Going beyond the recommendations set
out by the Migration Advisory Committee, these proposals will benefit tens of thousands
of international students.</p>
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