Poor, isolated, and far from home: what it's like to be an international student

By Shreya Paudel. Universities are eager to accept our fees – but are they doing enough to support young people like me who come from far away to study in the UK?
Can we do more to welcome international students?
Some of the international students who contribute £8bn a year to the UK economy are the well-heeled sons and daughters of elite families. But not all conform to that stereotype: many have poor parents who scrimped and saved to get them to the UK. More...