Recommendation 13

There is a worrying complacency in some quarters that the premium from overseas students could be banked for the long term. But this takes no account of a) the significant imbalance in where overseas students are coming from, particularly China, which concentrates the risks of geopolitical shifts; and b) an increasingly competitive international environment. It is therefore unclear why a student would pay a substantial premium to study in the UK, whilst in other countries, which may include their own, the quality of the offer is improving.