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Theresa May is under pressure to remove foreign students from offical immigration figures after warnings that her refusal to do so is damaging Britain’s world-class universities. A report by a cross-party group of MPs, published today, calls for overseas students to “not be counted against the overall [migration] limit”. It comes as
The Independent and Open Britain are campaigning for the migration target to be dropped. Amid cabinet tensions over the issue, Ms May could now be forced to compromise to push through the Higher Education Bill.