The recent GAO report offers anecdotal support for Mr Eisman's view that much of the recruitment of students is predatory.
These sentiments were reflected by Nicola Dandridge, chief executive of Universities UK, who said recruitment of international students operated "entirely outside these domestic limits".
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But he emphasised the necessity to implement the immigration rules - telling MPs that the university had "significant systemic problems" in its recruitment of overseas students.
Enrolment fell as it moved to raise admission levels, while the big University of Toronto was siphoning off students from the region with aggressive recruitment.
About every state high school athletic association has rules regulating the recruitment of tween and teen students for the purpose of athletics.
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Prof Gillies said the university was "84% towards their recruitment target for domestic and EU students" for this year and had been one of the few to be given funding to increase its intake this year.
Dr Hywel Davies, director of admissions and recruitment at Aberystwyth University, said some students would be disappointed.
In the past it was common for firms to indulge in large-scale recruitment programmes: hoovering up the most talented students from business schools en masse, often for indeterminate roles.
It ruled out quotas of state school students as "inappropriate" but said universities should set themselves recruitment targets and publicise them.
The Internships.com survey, conducted between Dec. 1 and Dec. 4, 2012, polled more than 7, 300 students and recent graduates, as well as over 300 human resources and recruitment professionals.
"The modest increase in the apprenticeship rate is unlikely to negatively affect apprenticeship recruitment and of much greater importance is the raising of apprenticeships standards, better information and advice to students and ensuring that apprenticeships are truly employer-led and employer-driven, " the EEF said.
Lazarus Karasavvidis, the 35-year-old managing director of international recruitment and training firm Skillup Australia in Melbourne, said he has been fielding a flood of calls from students and professionals in Greece seeking information on how to get work in Australia.
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