Remove intl students from immigrants list: Lord Bilimoria

British Government should remove international students including those from India from the list of immigrants sending out the signal to welcome them, leading NRI entrepreneur Lord Karan Bilimoria has said.
"On the Government's attitude to international students - we continue to include and categorise international students as immigrants in the net migration figures, but this Bill is an opportunity once and for all to sort this out," he said.
"I hope that we will address this and remove international students, sending out the signal that we welcomed them," Bilimoria, Chair of the advisory board of the Cambridge Judge Business School and Chancellor of the University of Birmingham while participating in a debate on Higher Education and Research Bill in the House of Lords, said on Tuesday.

Bilimoria, president of the UK Council for International Students Affairs, said that from India there has been a 50 per cent drop in students coming to the UK since 2010.
At the outset, he said according to the University of UK, the higher education sector is a success story with a global reputation for excellence in teaching and research, supporting over 2.5 million students from the UK and around the world.