Indian students are being put off applying to UK universities, adding to their financial woes at a time when education institutions are already coping with constrained budgets, a new report into the stability of the higher education sector in England has revealed. Based on UK Home Office data on confirmation of acceptance for studies (CAS) by UK providers from 2022-23 to 2023-24, an Office for Students (OfS) analysis released on Friday shows a 20.4 per cent drop in Indian student numbers down from 139,914 to 111,329. Indian student groups in the UK said the fall was to be expected amid limited job prospects and also safety concerns following recent anti-immigration riots in some cities. There has been a considerable decline in student visa applications from prospective non-UK students in some major source countries, notes the report by OfS, a non-departmental public body of the government's Department for Education. This data shows an 11.8 per cent decline in the total number of .
The United Kingdom is home to a 1.8 million strong Indian diaspora, which can significantly influence the upcoming electoral outcomes
An Indian student and award-winning environmentalist from the University of Bristol in south-west England has inspired a trend of plogging, or jogging combined with litter picking, across various cities of the UK. Vivek Gurav, originally from Pune, was inspired by the Swedish concept of plogging which combines jogga (jogging) with plocka upp (a pick-up) to encourage people who use their local streets the most to take pride in keeping them clean. In India, he set up a plogging community known as Pune Ploggers back in 2018, with over 10,000 members who have collected over 1 million kilograms of rubbish and wanted to continue the trend when he took up his scholarship position at Bristol University in September last year. Since then, his university says he has covered over 420 miles on 120 plogging missions joined by volunteers from 180 countries and is now taking the drive to 30 UK cities. I have only been plogging in Bristol but I kept getting asked by people in Manchester, Leeds, .
'An Indian living in London; but an Indian born and brought up in India: not a second generation Asian but a first generation immigrant - who's totally Indian but feels at home in both countries'
The report aims to help develop a better understanding of the contributions of businesses owned by people of Indian origin to the UK
Alongside, the Indian Overseas Congress (IOC) UK chapter organised its Bharat Bachao Rally (Save India) to coincide with similar protests in New Delhi and around the world.
The consultant further highlighted that the profile of wealthy Indian buyers are becoming younger.
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This is the highest level of EU emigration from Britain since the 2008 recession