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International higher education in the UK over the last quarter century has been profoundly reshaped by two countervailing trends: a massive boom in international student numbers that has been driven in part by the marketization of the sector; and recently, a seemingly endless process of restructuring the UK immigration regime, that continues to impose new and increased visa restrictions on international students. This chapter provides an analysis of these two key trends, and considers their contradictory significance for how concerns for educational equality and justice for international students in the UK are both highlighted, but also transformed and eroded. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the changing place of international students from the European Union, in the wake of the 2016 Brexit vote that put the United Kingdom on a path of leaving the European Union altogether.
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Tannock, S. (2018). International Students in the UK: Caught Between Market Forces and Immigration Targets. In: Educational Equality and International Students. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76381-1_3
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