Recommendation 17

The Department described the responsibility for maximising international student participation as being a shared one between government as a whole and individual institutions. We expressed concern about potential tensions between the aims of the Department, along with the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, to see more students coming from overseas and the efforts of the Home Office to control migration. The Department told us that it worked closely with the Home Office on visa arrangements to ensure that overseas students can come and study and also have opportunities after studying. It explained that it also worked with the Department for International Trade to ensure that education opportunities were included in wider trade discussions including, for example, by sending university delegations.33 The impact of disruption to A-level assessments