Part of 1. 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education – in the Senedd at 1:43 pm on 2 November 2016.
Thank you, Llywydd. The UK Home Secretary has mentioned the intention of her Government to reduce the number of international students studying in the UK by introducing a number of new restrictions. While recognising the importance of international students to universities and, indeed, the wider Welsh economy, can I ask what assessment the Government has made of the impact of such changes on Wales, and particularly perhaps the proposal to link an application for a student visa with the quality of the institution that they make an application for—something that the leaders of Welsh universities have described as an entirely destructive blow to them?