Educating students from overseas — an emotive question

During recent weeks there has been considerable comment regarding the cost of educating overseas students in the United Kingdom Regrettably we have witnessed in the debate the use of spurious statistics, false premises, and muddled facts. Hence, it is not surprising that the public are often confused by the emotive outburst from certain quarters. Others amongst us find the racist overtones of some of the political debators singularly distasteful.