Bigger India
Concessions on Indian student immigration could give UK a post-Brexit boost
India has made clear that education is key to a future trade deal; the UK must take note, says Lord Bilimoria
When I arrived from India as a 19-year-old student in the early 1980s, the UK was a very different country. In many ways, it was less open than now, but several institutions in London – such as the Indian YMCA, founded in 1920, and the India Club, which has stood on the Strand since the 1940s – testified to the welcome that Indian students had received going back a century.