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Article: Build it, and they will come; International students.(How universities are luring foreign students)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- January 17, 2009
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Universities are going all out to lure foreign students
THE reception desk is festooned with posters and flyers for local events and London shows. The paintwork gleams, the bedrooms are spacious, the kitchens and bathrooms high-end. Around the corner are classrooms and a lecture theatre, and in every nook and cranny students are chatting, working and reading.
This newly-opened four-storey building is on-campus home and school to around 400 students at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in Norwich, all of them from outside the European Union. It was paid for and built by INTO University, a private company that markets UEA's courses and recruits students ...