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Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250,000 in Britain.

We are seeing, we have seen in the last figures a significant drop in the number of net migrants coming into the United Kingdom. So we are cutting out abuse, we've restricted the number of economic - non-EU economic migrants. We're cutting out abuse across the student visa system, particularly, and we're having an impact.

So we know that it's not enough for us to simply encourage more people to study abroad. We also need to make sure that they can actually afford it.

I have had many opportunities to visit universities all over the world in the past 50 years.

I'd like to go to university. I'd like to do a bit of travelling.

Foreign students add cultural value to their British peers, who need an international outlook.

I have passed English medical examinations in Hong Kong... In my youth, I experienced overseas studies. The languages of the West, its literature, its political science, its customs, its mathematics, its geography, its physics and chemistry - all these I have had the chance to study.

If you can speak English, and you can get a place on a proper course at a proper university, you can come to study in Britain.

Too many people go to university.

Asian countries produce eight times as many engineering bachelors as the United States, and the number of U.S. students graduating at the masters and PhD levels in these areas is declining.