Classic August survey

This piece in today's Guardian starts off sensibly enough: Fewer undergraduates take jobs to help fund their studies ...and shows some reasonably sensible-looking data which suggests that the number of students working in term time has dropped as have the hours worked. But then they tell you some other numbers: A survey of 2,700 full-time …

International students a good thing: official

News from the Commons education select committee as reported by the BBC: (a) International students are good news (although think it is a wee bit more than £4m they bring to the UK economy) (b) We need to work harder, here and internationally, to maintain our position (thanks) (c) Others should be providing generous scholarships …