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Anti-immigration fears: Number of Indian students in Britain falls in 5 years
Strict student immigration laws since 2011 have seen Indian students looking to other destinations for higher education. The political uncertainty regarding Brexit bolsters the sentiment.
Indian students once flocked to the UK but the Brexit blight against immigrants has pulled the plug on the trend to the benefit of Canada and other countries.
December 2017 statistics for international students from the UK Council for International Student Affairs showed Indian students to the country fell a whopping 44% in the last five years.
Despite the blip of a 10% increase in visas to Indian students in the year ending September 2017 from a year ago, the declining numbers is still causing concern. The increase in 2017 to 14,081, was the first time the figures rose since 2010, when 60,000 Indian students got visas.