In message , at
18:38:21 on Thu, 10 Nov 2016, Arthur Figgis
remarked:

One of the problems with the stats is counting foreign students (whose
fees many Universities depend on) as immigrants.

It doesn't help the debate that according to the Guardian these
students are all doing PhDs in rocket science and cancer-curing at
Imperial, while according to the Mail they are all doing diplomas in
general studies at the Outer Croydon Institute of Visa Applications.

Presumably the truth is in the middle.

The truth is that (generalising) the ones studying at the former are
doing it in good faith, and the ones at the latter in bad faith.
--
Roland Perry