July 28, 2006

Toward a New Foreign-Student Strategy

By MARLENE M. JOHNSON

In an April op-ed article in The Guardian, Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain announced that he was personally setting a goal of attracting 100,000 more international students to Britain in the next five years. That would follow an increase of 118,000 since Blair announced his first international-student initiative in 1999. Titled "Why We're Putting Up Millions to Attract More Students From Overseas," the essay outlined a package of incentives designed to make the nation a more attractive

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