Should Oxbridge further restrict places to overseas students in favour of our own?

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Aren't all British universities public ones though (with the exception of the University of Buckingham)?

The public/private distinction has been imported from the USA and is really peculiar to the way US universities are funded. It certainly doesn't mean a university does not receive government money. Harvard, a private university, receives annually more US Federal government money than the British government pays to any British university.

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Original post by BrainDrain

Every year many Oxbridge calibre home grown students fail to gain a place to study there solely because of lack of spaces, and yet at the same time many students from overseas are offered places. Is it time to redistribute some of these places to our own students to enable them to fulfil their dreams and go on to make major contributions to our own economy, as against foreign students returning home with their skills.

For non-EU students it would leave a hole in their budget, potentially leaving them needing to take fewer home students.

EU students have to be treated like UK students under EU law.

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Original post by BrainDrain

Every year many Oxbridge calibre home grown students fail to gain a place to study there solely because of lack of spaces, and yet at the same time many students from overseas are offered places.

Rephrasing, "every year many British students are rejected from Oxbridge because other students are better, some of whom happen to be foreign." "We should kick them out! How dare those dirty foreigners come over here and out-perform our own British applicants on objective measures like exam results!?"