Attracting Overseas Students to Welsh Universities

Part of 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education – in the Senedd at 1:32 pm on 7 March 2018.

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Photo of David Melding David Melding Conservative 1:32, 7 March 2018

Cabinet Secretary, students from overseas are worth more than £151 million to the economy of Cardiff alone. You may have seen a new study by the Higher Education Policy Institute that shows the benefits of international students are up to 10 times greater than the cost. So, for places like Cardiff, and other university cities and towns around Wales, this is a really, really important source of income, but, more importantly, the prestige we get and the future benefit from highly skilled people having had such a welcoming and attractive experience in Wales in higher education. So, what will you be doing to ensure that, as Brexit proceeds, we remain a key place, and a most welcoming one, for foreign students?