Why do we have so many foreign students?

I know there's real heartbreak at the number of UK students not getting into university. I look around my uni (manchester) and it's possibly 50-50. I am judging this not on skin colour because their's a lot of white students who are not British too. I can tell because they speak a different language or their accent gives them way. Surely it's immoral to deny a place at university for a UK student when we have so many foreign students? By foreign students I mean non-EU. I've got little problem with international students, just the huge quantities. For example, if I am in a tutorial and I want to chat about the work and their's maybe 80% foreign students (which is no exaggeration), then it can get really awkward.

Do you think that it's right to have so many? Most of them probably will leave back home anyway and thus not contribute to the economy. Do you think that this will increase with the rise of tuition fees?

Only 23% of students at Manchester University are from overseas
http://unistats.direct.gov.uk/searchResults.do?pname=subjectsearchresults&level3Subjects=L.%AC10007798%ACnovalue%ACnovalue%AC410%ACNo%AC77%ACNo%AC79%ACNo%ACYes

Get your facts straight.

Because they pay a ****load of tuition fees. It's expensive to run a university. Somebody has to pay for it

Because part of becoming educated is to learn about different people and cultures.

If you're a strong candidate, you won't be without a university place FFS.

In what way is it awkward? Are you socially inept?

I'm British and have no problems talking to and making friends with international students.

When we accept foreign students, we don't deny a place to a UK student. The foreign student doesn't take the place of the UK student. Nor do they take a place that the UK student would have had.

They have different quotas set aside for them.

Well, there's 1 tutorial whereby I have nobody to talk to because only few of the students speak English or are confident enough to speak it.

And 1/4 is acceptable for you?

Different quotas doesn't mean that if we reduced the international quota a UK student couldn't take their place. There are only so many students a class can take, UK or international. You're arguing a technicality and avoiding the crux of the argument.

Realistically, it's all about the benjamins I'm afraid. They fund the universities far more than UK students, so the unis will push for as many as possible.

Because this once great nation rolled over and has allowed the foreigners to trample her under their feet.

Another thing is this country has no backbone. If the french government do something the people don't like, they start a revolution. Here? Well we just accept it.

I know there's real heartbreak at the number of UK students not getting into university. I look around my uni (manchester) and it's possibly 50-50. I am judging this not on skin colour because their's a lot of white students who are not British too. I can tell because they speak a different language or their accent gives them way. Surely it's immoral to deny a place at university for a UK student when we have so many foreign students? By foreign students I mean non-EU. I've got little problem with international students, just the huge quantities. For example, if I am in a tutorial and I want to chat about the work and their's maybe 80% foreign students (which is no exaggeration), then it can get really awkward.

Do you think that it's right to have so many? Most of them probably will leave back home anyway and thus not contribute to the economy. Do you think that this will increase with the rise of tuition fees?