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That's going to be good news for universities which rely on foreign students paying full fees for a substantial part of their income.

As for the 20% still here - how many are doing PhDs?

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Tue Sep 7th, 2010 at 07:08:23 AM EST
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On top of that you have students doing 4 year degrees, who have had to retake one of their years (Not an uncommon activity amongst students coming from countries where they will have to complete National Service as soon as they have completed their degree)

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Tue Sep 7th, 2010 at 07:37:21 AM EST
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And don't forget the many, many terrorists pretending to be students.
by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Tue Sep 7th, 2010 at 07:43:23 AM EST
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Oh don't get me started on that.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Tue Sep 7th, 2010 at 07:51:13 AM EST
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And, to judge by things like the Times Square bombing or the Glasgow Airport attack, they're not pretending to be the "best and brightest".
by gk (g k quattro due due sette "at" gmail.com) on Tue Sep 7th, 2010 at 08:02:22 AM EST
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A university education just isn't what it used to be.
by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Tue Sep 7th, 2010 at 08:10:31 AM EST
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Seeing as the Glasgow Airport ones were ones with doctorates (or getting close to having one) then it really is an indictment of our educational system. Maybe those complaining about Grade creep in A-levels have a point.

(On the other hand having met academics, there are a lot who apart from their specialist subject would be pushed mentally to tie their shoes)

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Tue Sep 7th, 2010 at 08:18:02 AM EST
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See also: Kafeel Ahmed - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

According to police sources, he was an engineer pursuing a Ph.D. in computational fluid dynamics at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, in the UK, on the topic of "Computational Approach to Ink-jet Printing of Tactile Maps." He would have earned a bachelor of mechanical engineering from India, and an M.Phil. degree in aeronautical engineering from Queen's University Belfast.[10] He might have been in the UK as early as September 2003. He is believed to have organized a Chechnya Day Meeting in his native city of Bangalore, back in February 2006.[11]

As an aeronautics engineer, Ahmed was able to secure employment, from December 2005, to August 2006, with Infotech, an Indian outsourcing company servicing clients such as Airbus and Boeing, before resigning abruptly.[12] It could be possible that he had access to sensitive design information about various aviation companies.[13]

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Tue Sep 7th, 2010 at 08:32:48 AM EST
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