UK universities should be rolling out the red carpet for all the great students who the USA no longer want. Unfortunately our government seems more interested in pandering to the bigots who think "more foreigners == bad". :-(
Maybe China can become the destination for ambitious smart people.
There is a big opportunity to pull in brain power for any country who wants it and can offer the follow on career.
Don't underestimate the language barrier. All those stereotypes about Chinese people mixing Rs and Ls? That works both ways, not just tongue twisters like Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den*, but even "Hello": https://translate.google.com/?sl=auto&tl=en&text=“你好”%20%2F%...
And machine translation is currently so bad, that the last few time I tried giving an example here, people who actually speak Chinese would respond with something along the lines of "I have no idea what you tried to write, that is nonsensical".
* https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vExjnn_3ep4&pp=ygUhTGlvbi1FYXR...
Have you tried LLMs for that?
> According to separate Home Office figures, 393,125 student visas were issued to foreign students in the year ending December 2024.
> That is 14% fewer than in the previous 12-month period, but still almost 50% higher (46%) than in 2019.
So a 14% decrease between 2023 and 2024. I am willing to bet this will go down further this year.
The post-brexit surge in international students was driven by UK universities leaning on foreign students to fill their financial hole. The fees for domestic students will start to go up now that foreign student enrollments are declining.
Then no, she was jailed for calling for incitement to commit crimes.
If you mean this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_joke_trial
Then I'd say essentially yes, despite it being a fine and not imprisonment and getting quashed later anyway, because most of us aren't lawyers and won't care about that kind of distinction — and that goes double for students on a visa.
[Edit: Just realised the "you" in your comment can either be the poster or the police, with very different consequences.]
The rules are something that looks like a credible threat.
Both these, at the time of the conviction, did look credible.
The second was only overturned because enough people argued well enough that it wasn't credible and shouldn't have ever been seen as credible. The rules were then changed to emphasise the arguments people had made so this didn't happen again.