How experts got it wrong

POLITICIANS and experts had made dire predictions that the number of foreign students would plummet after Brexit.

In 2016 Nicola Dandridge, chief executive of Universities UK, warned it was ‘highly likely to mean that international students choose to study elsewhere, strengthening our competitors and weakening the UK’s universities’.

Paul Blomfield MP, co-chairman of the all-party parliamentary group for international students, said: ‘Leaving the EU would make the UK a less attractive destination for study and that is bad news for our economy.

‘Hundreds of thousands of jobs would be at risk.’

Jeremy Cooper, managing director of Hobsons consultancy, said: ‘For universities in the UK, the conditions for recruiting international students are tougher than ever.’