The Industrial Strategy identifies growth-driving sectors that will require a highly-skilled workforce. Higher education will be a key to unlocking this ambition. But as universities aim to recruit the best talent from around the world, Aadya Bahl and Sandra McNally write, the Government's recent immigration policies risk destabilising the sector at the very moment it is being asked to do more.

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21 July 2025

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LSE British politics and policy

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https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/universities-are-engines-of-growth-and-must-be-backed-by-policy/

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