There is a substantial 25% fall in number of Indian students in higher education in Britain in the comparison of previous year, a British report says.
According to Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA), Universities and colleges saw a significant fall in the numbers of international students from India and Pakistan after coming up the new visa rule.
However, the numbers of Chinese students improved from Asia.
According to the Telegraph, across all higher education institutions, the number of international students from outside the EU rose by 1.5 percent last year to 302,680, despite significant falls for the first time in the numbers from India and Pakistan.
The numbers of overseas students coming to study in the UK is under scrutiny as universities have claimed the Government's crackdown on bogus students is deterring genuine applicants and risks damaging the UK's economy.
The UK universities believe that the fall of a quarter in the number of Indian students is a "real cause for concern".
John Mountford, international director of the Association of Colleges, said the falls were the result of new visa restrictions and a clampdown on post-study work visas.
The report, however, pointed out that India still accounts for ten percent of all higher education students from outside the EU who study in the UK, making the country second only behind China whose 78,715 students, up almost a fifth on the previous year, account for more than a quarter.
After coming up in the power David Cameron government has tightened Visa Rules to curb the numbers of bogus students and closed the post-work visa, which was popular among Indian students who used it to recover some of the cost of studying in Britain.
--With ANI Inputs--
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