But they still report a rapid increase in the number of foreign students, especially from Japan.
It wants the number of foreign students in Japan, currently 132, 000, to rise to 1m.
In 2002-04 the number of foreign students increased by 21% in Britain, 23% in Germany and 28% in France.
Even in an unrecovered economy, the number of foreign students in the US jumped nearly 5% in academic year 2011.
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Now, we've got to do it in a prudent way, but, you know, let's just take the example of foreign students.
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At the LSE the share of foreign students is over 50%, but Mr Grant has no plans to go that far.
Changes to the student-visa system this year have left thousands of foreign students stranded at home and as angry as wet cats.
This regulation, created in the last year of Mr. Sarkozy's presidency, limits the ability of foreign students to stay and work here.
The number of foreign students has increased in part because foreigners pay more than locals, increasing the incentive for universities to recruit abroad.
Indian students are now the largest group of foreign students within the United States and represent a major growth market for American institutions of education.
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Also, the prestige of American institutions attracts hordes of foreign students.
Statisticians say this is because of an increase of foreign students at independent schools taking different examinations aimed at those with English as a second language.
With a large, flexible pool of foreign students in London to draw on, the company says it can handle expense claims and receipts from anywhere in the world.
The second highest number of foreign students in the United States come from China, and we've seen a 50 percent increase in the study of Chinese among our own students.
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The Institute of International Education reports that the number of foreign students on American campuses declined by 2.4% in 2003-04, the first time the number has gone down in 30 years.
The Office for National Statistics said this was "largely due" to a decline in the number of foreign students despite an increase in the number of arrivals from China - the UK's largest overseas student market.
Yet Carleton's target of a first-year enrolment of 4, 800 students by 2000 is still in doubt, in part because higher fees and fewer government scholarships have cut the number of foreign students (as indeed they have across Canada, from 38, 000 to 32, 000 in four years).
Some 80% of foreign doctoral students in science and engineering plan to stay there after graduation--up from 50% in 1985.
Ironically, the federal government funds much of our foreign students' work to obtain their degrees in research at top American universities.
Anecdotal reports have suggested that the big American schools are failing to attract the number of lucrative foreign students they once did (see article).
American taxpayers are subsidizing the training of tens of thousands of foreign graduate students in sciences, math, engineering and information technology at top American universities.
Last week the Prime Minister visited India, partly to drum up business for universities, and stressed there was no cap on the number of genuine foreign students.
But that so many young Italians study abroad, and so few young foreigners (2% of all foreign students) do in Italy, points to equally low standards at university level.
This statistic has led to growing bipartisan support in Congress and during the presidential debates to staple a green card to the diplomas of all foreign students earning an advanced degree in science, technology, engineering and math.
According to the OECD, the UK is second only to the US as a destination for tertiary students studying abroad (as of 2008, 10% of all students studying in foreign countries were enrolled in UK institutions of higher learning).
China thus leads India and South Korea as the primary country of origin for foreign students.
Most of the other foreign students in Japan are also from Asian countries.
The British Council's director of higher education, Pat Killingley, said the inclusion of the additional foreign students was good news for UK higher education.
Despite the school's efforts, 67% of foreign-born students from Owen's M.
According to John Porter, assistant superintendent, Administrative Services and Public Relations for the Alexandria City Public Schools, their graduation rate is reflective of a large number of foreign-born students who may take longer than the traditional four years to graduate.
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