{"id":30659,"date":"2018-10-26T17:20:10","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T11:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=30659"},"modified":"2018-10-26T17:20:10","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T11:50:10","slug":"u-k-fumes-at-french-offer-to-indian-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/u-k-fumes-at-french-offer-to-indian-students\/","title":{"rendered":"U.K. fumes at French offer to Indian students\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-national\/uk-fumes-at-macrons-offer-to-indian-students\/article23166441.ece\"><strong>U.K. fumes at French offer to Indian students<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>French President Emmanuel Macron\u2019s overtures to India during his four-day visit have hit a raw nerve in Britain, particularly as he sought to reach out to Indian students, encouraging them to study in France.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Post-Brexit stand on issue unclear<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson took to Twitter to defend Britain\u2019s record, pointing out that over 14,000 came to study in Britain in the first quarter of 2017 alone \u2014 a rise from the year before.<\/p>\n<p><strong>British concerns<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>His comments touch upon a couple of contested political issues in Britain \u2014 concerns around its stance on international students, and fears that European markets will seek to capitalise on Brexit-related uncertainty to lure businesses and others out of the U.K.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Recovery but numbers still low<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The issue of international students remains particularly sensitive in the U.K., with the total numbers of Indian students making a modest recovery last year, but still below 2010 figures<\/li>\n<li>Meanwhile, the numbers of Indian students in other European countries such as Germany have risen sharply.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.K. fumes at French offer to Indian students Context French President Emmanuel Macron\u2019s overtures to India during his four-day visit have hit a raw nerve in Britain, particularly as he sought to reach out to Indian students, encouraging them to study in France. Post-Brexit stand on issue unclear British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson took to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/u-k-fumes-at-french-offer-to-indian-students\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">U.K. fumes at French offer to Indian students\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704886959},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}