Saying that the interests of British students are seriously comprised by poor English speakers is ridiculous.
This autumn, though, fewer British students will go to universities in England than last year.
British students are among the least likely worldwide to cheat in exams, claims the convenor of examination boards.
Whereas French and Italian fashion students labour under the deadweight of tradition and past glory, she says, British students are encouraged to be individualistic.
Just over half (53%) of white British students were awarded upper second class degrees, while almost 40% of black or black British Caribbean students did so.
Moreover the tail of underachievement is long and cannot be explained away by immigration: around a fifth of British students cannot read properly and a similar number are flummoxed by simple sums.
Plagiarism rates in some countries are horrific (when I was in China I had plagiarism rates of 80% plus as a minimum) but the idea that British students are somehow blameless is ridiculous.
Roughly 6% of black British students got a first class honours degree at UK universities in 2011-12, compared with nearly 19% of white British students, data from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (Hesa) shows.
Accommodating the Lib Dems' election pledge to relieve Scottish students of having to pay tuition fees, which were introduced for all British students by Labour a year ago, proved particularly thorny (see article).
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Following his death an appeal was launched to raise money for a memorial at Runnymede and for a scholarship scheme to enable British students to study at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
NHS. But he has blurred his party's own identity by failing to offer a tax-cutting alternative and by his appallingly hypocritical opposition to Mr Blair's brave effort to ease universities' financial problems by allowing them to charge fees to British students a reform that could have been taken from a Thatcherite textbook.
British university students, especially those at the first-tier universities, thus get a fantastic bargain.
And British university students, especially those at Oxbridge, come disproportionately from prosperous families.
The visit to Colorado got underway Friday night when Harry charmed dozens of dignitaries, British expatriates, students and military officers at a cocktail party welcoming him to Colorado.
The Queen and the duke later met Germany's chancellor, Gerhard Schroeder, at the ultra-modern Chancellery, and 24 British and German students, aged 16 to 19, working together to study the effects of climate change.
There would be less truth in that caricature if British graduates in disciplines such as science and engineering gained some familiarity with business as part of their studies (it is noteworthy that the best British universities discourage students from earning money while they learn, while at American ones most are obliged to).
The number of British part-time students in the UK fell 3% between 2007 and 2008, to 762, 340.
The app came out of a "hackathon" run by Setsquared, a partnership of British universities which supports students' business ideas.
Steve Hilton, David Cameron's former "blue skies thinker", has reportedly told his US students that British "bureaucracy masters the politicians".
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Courses abroad also help recruit students into British-based study later.
Why are there so many American students studying in British universities?
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The students also want British authorities to return a suspect allegedly wanted in the killing of Neda Agha-Soltan, a 26-year-old woman who became an icon after she was killed during the post election riots in Iran this summer, Fars reported.
Together with a cap on the numbers allowed into British universities, this is encouraging students to look abroad.
They are the only major British book awards to include scholars and students on the judging panel.
Instant Impact Interns, a British start-up, focuses on students from Oxford, Cambridge and other leading universities.
And there are forecasts from the British Council that the number of overseas students coming to the UK could triple.
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The group joined other U.S. students and a group of British children who were quarantined in China's capital following positive H1N1 tests from each of the groups.
The James Tait Black Memorial Prizes have been awarded by the University of Edinburgh since 1919 and are the only major British literary awards judged by scholars and students.
Mr Cameron said there was no limit on the number of Indian students that could come to British universities, as long as they had an English language qualification and a place to study.
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General Galtieri sent thousands of troops to bolster his initial force, but the army was mostly made up of poorly-trained, poorly-equipped conscripts, used to spreading fear among demonstrating students, but no match for British professionals.
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