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Recruiting International Students in Higher Education

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The most dominant rationale in the policy discourse is the financial incentive to recruit international students. At its heart is the premise that the UK needs more money and that direct international recruitment is an appropriate, effective means of obtaining it.

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Lomer, S. (2017). Income: An Economic Rationale and International Students as Economic Contributors. In: Recruiting International Students in Higher Education. Palgrave Studies in Global Higher Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51073-6_7

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