‘It felt like my way out’: why students from India come to the UK to study

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About 140,000 Indians sought educational opportunities in Britain last year, and the number is growing

The aspiration to travel abroad for university and work has long been ubiquitous across India.

In a country of 1.4 billion people, places at India’s top universities are excruciatingly competitive and graduate job prospects at the other end are gloomy. India’s economy is the fifth largest in the world but unemployment topped 8% last month, with graduate unemployment even higher at about 18%.

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