Britain Expands Foreign-Student Recruitment

By AISHA LABI

Underscoring Britain's determination to win more of the lucrative foreign-student market, Prime Minister Tony Blair announced new recruitment goals this month and discussed two programs that he said "highlight the growing internationalization of education at all levels."

The government hopes to attract an additional 100,000 students from nations outside the European Union to British universities over the next five years, Mr. Blair said. Students from outside the European Union pay