Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans he has to update the International Student Strategy 2019.

In February 2021 and in May 2022, the Department for Education and the Department for International Trade jointly published updates to the International Education Strategy. These re-committed to the ambitions to increase the value of our education exports to £35 billion per year, and to continue to host at least 600,000 international students in the UK per year, both by 2030.

The target to attract 600,000 international students per year to study here has already been reached, and we are now focusing on bringing in £35 billion from our education exports by 2030.

The February 2021 update also confirmed Europe as an important regional market for Sir Steve Smith, the International Education Champion, who was appointed to develop strong international relationships in new and established markets.