UK PAGE 4 BRIEFING: Student migration to the UK In the academic year 2020/21, more than 600,000 international students were enrolled in UK higher education, making up 22% of all HE students Study is a major reason that people move to the UK (see the Migration Observatory briefings, Migrants in the UK: An Overview and Who migrates to the UK and why?. [...] In part, the fall may have been due to the abolition of the post-study work visa (Figure 9 shows the preference of Indian students for work in the UK after graduation). [...] UK PAGE 9 BRIEFING: Student migration to the UK From 2008 to 2019, the UK lost global market share in international students to Australia, Canada, and China, although the absolute number of international students coming to the UK increased Although the UK has more than doubled its intake of international students over the past 20 years, from 2008 to 2019 its global market share fell from 11% to 8%. [...] UK PAGE 10 BRIEFING: Student migration to the UK Figure 6 The higher education sector has raised concerns that the decline in the UK’s market share of international students resulted from changes in policy in the 2010–2015 term of government, such as restrictions of post-study work options (e.g., see evidence cited in Migration Advisory Committee, 2018, p. [...] UK PAGE 11 BRIEFING: Student migration to the UK Figure 7 The post-2011 fall in student numbers from India (also shown in Figure 4) followed the closure of the post-study work route in 2012 and the introduction by the Home Office in 2010 of a new student visa system.
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