Foreigners who study in Britain are likelier to create wealth in the country later on.
Mrs May expects her new measures to cut non-EU student numbers by at least 70, 000-80, 000 a year, or more than a quarter of the non-EU total (EU citizens don't need visas to study in Britain), though both numbers and policy details remain a work in progress.
But those who study race relations in Britain believe that the Lawrence inquiry may provide the chance of a new start.
The study also revealed that, in Britain, no matter how well educated, new-member migrants were often stuck in jobs that demand little in the way of skills and offer wages to match.
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That is true, but according to a recent study by the OECD, in Britain individuals get more than two-thirds of the benefits of higher education: the students are the main winners.
As for students, they either study abroad, often in America or Britain, or they take to the streets.
The study asked 1, 000 adults in Britain, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States about the accessibility, affordability and quality of their national health-care systems.
Their study, published in early 2008, placed Britain 16th among 19 advanced countries (France came first).
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But there are a lot of them some 120, 000 in Britain, or one in 100 children, according to a new study by Oxford University's Centre for Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS).
The Concord study published in 2008 showed that cancer survival rates in Britain are among the worst in Europe.
Educators feared that all courses below university level might be ruled off limits to overseas students, even though between 40% and 50% of foreigners at British universities had taken an earlier course in Britain, usually to hone language or study skills.
About 100 of the 600 graduates annually go to study abroad in countries including Australia, Singapore, Japan, France, Britain and the United States, and the rest usually go to top universities, often in Beijing.
Over the years these have included polo, competitive horse carriage driving (a sport in which he has represented Britain) science, the study of UFOs, practical jokes, painting and taking the wheel of his own London taxi.
Pension finances may look even worse in six months, when Britain's actuaries produce a study on longevity.
An examination of British federalisation would make an interesting subject of study, as would an analysis of the role of a dismembered Britain in world affairs.
Lo was born into a family of bankers that sent her to Britain to study at Cambridge, where she earned a degree in European history (she also studied at Harvard in the U.S.).
Mr Plomin has also set up a study working with 10, 000 pairs of identical and non-identical twins in Britain.
Another study found that Britain's two-year national service (which ended in 1960) cut later earnings by between 5% and 8%.
One first, obvious point from the study: Britain was not the only country to see a large and unexpected rise in public debt between 2007 and 2010.
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Netanyahu wrote his study of Herzl at the same time as the Zionist leadership in pre-state Israel was debating Britain's Peel Commission's partition plan.
In December officials from Britain's financial-services regulator went to New York to study America's bankruptcy code, which has special provisions for investment banks.
It is not known how long the government's "feasibility study" into a super prison might last, but Britain's biggest super jail could be built in the north-west of England, north Wales, or London.
Britain's corporate taxes are in fact not all that high, according to a study by the World Bank and PricewaterhouseCoopers, an accounting firm, which looks at the percentage of earnings that companies pay overall (including labour taxes).
Britain's workforce has taken the biggest pay cuts in the developed world according to a study published by the Trades Union Congress.
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More than a fifth of students who entered Britain in 2004 were still here five years later - and many were supposed to be coming to study short courses.
The most worrying part of the GE Capital study is that Britain's mid-sized firms have lower exposure to markets outside Europe than do their peers in Germany, France and Italy.
But it has inspired other schemes, including a Stanford University study of how protein chains fold in on themselves and a global weather-forecasting model at the Rutherford Appleton Lab in Britain.
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