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Home Secretary's plans to send students home are short-sighted: James Dyson
Writing in the Guardian, James Dyson refers to Theresa May's latest "ploy" to require international students to return home after qualifying as "a short-term vote winner that leads to long-term economic decline"; and that whilst "binning" foreign postgraduates may be a "quick fix...quick fixes don't build long-term futures."
Dyson refers to estimates that Britain will need "640,000 extra engineering minds by 2020" whilst the home-grown postgraduate population in science and engineering is "pitifully thin"; and also recognises that international students net Britain nearly £7bn each year. Sending them home may provide good value for competitor nations but in Dyson's view, "our education system should be a tool to import the world's greatest minds. And, most importantly, to keep them here, so our economy - and our culture - benefits."
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/04/theresa-may-foreign-postgraduates-students-qualification-vote-dyson?commentpage=1
Management Today subsequently reported that the Home Secretary's plans had been quashed by the Chancellor, George Osborne, but we wait to see whether they re-emerge in a different form.
Home Secretary's plans to send students home are short-sighted: James Dyson
Writing in the Guardian, James Dyson refers to Theresa May's latest "ploy" to require international students to return home after qualifying as "a short-term vote winner that leads to long-term economic decline"; and that whilst "binning" foreign postgraduates may be a "quick fix...quick fixes don't build long-term futures."
Dyson refers to estimates that Britain will need "640,000 extra engineering minds by 2020" whilst the home-grown postgraduate population in science and engineering is "pitifully thin"; and also recognises that international students net Britain nearly £7bn each year. Sending them home may provide good value for competitor nations but in Dyson's view, "our education system should be a tool to import the world's greatest minds. And, most importantly, to keep them here, so our economy - and our culture - benefits."
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/04/theresa-may-foreign-postgraduates-students-qualification-vote-dyson?commentpage=1
Management Today subsequently reported that the Home Secretary's plans had been quashed by the Chancellor, George Osborne, but we wait to see whether they re-emerge in a different form.
Dyson refers to estimates that Britain will need "640,000 extra engineering minds by 2020" whilst the home-grown postgraduate population in science and engineering is "pitifully thin"; and also recognises that international students net Britain nearly £7bn each year. Sending them home may provide good value for competitor nations but in Dyson's view, "our education system should be a tool to import the world's greatest minds. And, most importantly, to keep them here, so our economy - and our culture - benefits."
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/04/theresa-may-foreign-postgraduates-students-qualification-vote-dyson?commentpage=1
Management Today subsequently reported that the Home Secretary's plans had been quashed by the Chancellor, George Osborne, but we wait to see whether they re-emerge in a different form.