報告指出 英國高校依賴中國生源

British universities are growing even more dependent on international students from China, according to a report.

一份報告指出，英國高校越來越依賴來自中國的留學生。

The Times Higher Education Supplement highlighted the latest UK government immigration statistics and found that the number of study visas granted to students from the Chinese mainland rose 10% to 77,290 in the year to March 2017.

《泰晤士報高等教育增刊》在着重研究英國政府最新的移民統計數據後發現，在截至2017年3月的一年中，發放給中國內地學生的留學簽證的數量增加了10%，達77290個。

That represented a 37% of all study visas granted to students from outside the European Union over the period.

這一數字佔據這一時期內英國給歐盟以外地區學生髮放的全部留學簽證的37%。

This is a major change compared with about 10 years ago when India was the dominant source of non-EU students.

這與約10年前相比發生了重大變化，那時印度是在英國就讀的非歐盟學生的主要來源國。

The US came in second in the year to March 2017 on study visas granted with almost 14,300, while India was third with just above 11,600.

在截至2017年3月的一年裏，美國以近1.43萬人獲得留學簽證位居第二，而印度則以略多於1.16萬人獲留學簽證位居第三。

UK Home Office visa data which showed that over the past few years around 49% of visa applicants come from East Asia.

英國內政部的簽證數據顯示，在過去幾年裏，約49%的簽證申請者來自東亞。