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Accept students with poor language skills at your peril, unis warned
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; background-color: #ffffff;">Universities that focus on recruitment over adequate language skills risk falling into a "death spiral" that will hamper them from attracting more international students, a conference has heard.&ldquo;If all you&rsquo;re doing is churning out students that can&rsquo;t actually communicate, can&rsquo;t do the job that they are required to do, or if you&rsquo;ve got incredibly high fail rates, this will drive you down in the QS rankings,&rdquo; according to Susan Kinnear, dean of education and student experience at the University of Dundee.</div> <p><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; background-color: #ffffff;">Taking this approach &ldquo;puts you in effect into a death spiral because you then can&rsquo;t attract further international students&rdquo;, she warned.</span></p> <div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: georgia, serif;"><strong>&nbsp;</strong></span></div> <div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: georgia, serif;"><strong>Reference Link:&nbsp;</strong></span><a style="color: #1155cc;" href="https://thepienews.com/accept-students-with-poor-language-skills-at-your-peril-unis-warned/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://thepienews.com/accept-students-with-poor-language-skills-at-your-peril-unis-warned/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1740023483474000&amp;usg=AOvVaw25Wf7ZAb5wSHq7fXeO-D45">https://thepienews.com/<wbr />accept-students-with-poor-<wbr />language-skills-at-your-peril-<wbr />unis-warned/</a></div>
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Glimmer of hope for UK recruitment as applications rise
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; background-color: #ffffff;">Two new datasets from the Home Office and UCAS offer a cautiously optimistic view of international student recruitment to the UK, highlighting some positive developments amid broader downward trends.</div> <div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; background-color: #ffffff;">New Home Office data released on February 13 showed that a total of 28,700 sponsored study visa applications were made in January 2025 &ndash; 12.5% more than in January 2024, when 25,500 applications were made.<br />Meanwhile, dependant visa applications decreased by 32.4%, with 2,300 submitted in January 2025 &ndash; down from 3,400 in January 2024.</div> <div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; background-color: #ffffff;">&nbsp;</div> <div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; background-color: #ffffff;">Reference Link :<a style="color: #1155cc;" href="https://thepienews.com/glimmer-of-hope-for-uk-recruitment-as-applications-rise/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://thepienews.com/glimmer-of-hope-for-uk-recruitment-as-applications-rise/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1739853306622000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1kKDumyATCu0ZsiW6OCRAO">&nbsp;https://thepienews.com/<wbr />glimmer-of-hope-for-uk-<wbr />recruitment-as-applications-<wbr />rise/</a></div>

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