Postgraduate funding and Asian students

. Course sizes are definitely smaller which is necessary for teaching at a higher level, but 1.should our government give our own graduates preference over these non EU internationals with the graduate job market as competitive as it is today?

2. Considering that funding will be available for 2016 entry, I also wonder how universities are going to adapt to this. Ideally they will keep course sizes the same except make admissions more difficult, but knowing that many universities like their money I am concerned that they will accept a higher proportion of internationals. In a lot of cases the students don't even seem to be particularly exceptional and at least the ones i ended up in halls with are fairly middling students. There's technically nothing wrong with that, but generally a country wants to encourage the best and brightest of other nations to study at its universities, not just anyone.

With all the rhetoric from the government about how Britain provides world class education, I just feel disheartened about how they are quite happy to acknowledge their world class higher education system but seem to do very little to favour home students who, at present can't afford to fund a masters. What does everyone else think about this?