http://blogs.independent.co.uk| Blogs from the Independent newspaper - news, views and features from the world's most free-thinking newspaper| Thu, 23 May 2013 13:07:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2| en hourly 1 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/14/political-football-if-foreign-students-are-kicked-out-of-uk-universities/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/14/political-football-if-foreign-students-are-kicked-out-of-uk-universities/#comments Thu, 14 Jun 2012 10:25:16 +0000 Matt Cavanagh http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=25241 Including or excluding students in immigration reduction targets makes relatively little difference to long-run net migration – which ministers and Migration Watch say is their real concern – but makes a big difference to how the government’s efforts look in short-run political terms.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/14/political-football-if-foreign-students-are-kicked-out-of-uk-universities/feed/ 5