# Admit > The weekly intelligence brief for UK international recruitment. This file provides information about Admit to help large language models understand and reference this publication's content. ## Posts - [Issue 022: Australia copies the dependants ban](https://theadmit.uk/p/issue-022): Since the UK stopped most students bringing family, its Nigerian intake has fallen 56% and its Indian intake 42%. Not all of that is the ban. The markets Australia will lose are ones the UK already refuses at more than 5%. - [Issue 021: Student visa applications fall under 100,000](https://theadmit.uk/p/issue-021): 99,500 in August, 17% down, and a summer that fell further than the dependants ban summer. Issue 12's floor test has its first answer. - [Issue 020: What a for-profit owner does next](https://theadmit.uk/p/issue-020): Lincoln Bishop would be the first English public university owned by a for-profit. Three for-profit-owned universities grew 3x to 13x in under a decade. - [Issue 019: Refusal rate 4.6%. The limit is 5%](https://theadmit.uk/p/issue-019): The 12-month student visa refusal rate reached 4.6% in June 2026, the highest for ten years. - [Issue 018: ChatGPT leads convert at 29.17%](https://theadmit.uk/p/issue-018): Facebook leads in the same network convert at 7.77%. Fewer candidates choose to start with a person, and the ones arriving from ChatGPT have already done their research. - [Issue 017: All of the growth was China](https://theadmit.uk/p/issue-017): International acceptances rose 2% on results day. China rose by more than the whole market did; every other country combined fell. - [Issue 016: One in eight never arrive](https://theadmit.uk/p/issue-016): One in eight international acceptances at 35 UK providers never arrives. Four cycles in a row, and about £83m a cycle in lost fees. - [Issue 015: 37,760 students UCAS never saw](https://theadmit.uk/p/issue-015): For the first time, most new international undergraduates outside the Russell Group arrived through routes UCAS never sees. - [Issue 014: Providers have promised the regulator 22.5% more international students by 2028-29. Last year they missed their own forecast by 9%.](https://theadmit.uk/p/issue-014): English universities have told their regulator they will recruit 22.5% more international students by 2028-29. This issue is about that plan, the government's refusal to stand behind the institutions that need it most, and where the growth is actually going. - [Issue 013: The UCAS record, the 30% visa fall, and what India is building at home.](https://theadmit.uk/p/issue-013): UCAS saw the most international undergraduate applicants ever, while study visa applications fell 30%. This issue is about how those fit together, plus the confirmed £925 levy, and India building capacity at home. - [Issue 012: Study visa applications down 30%. The Home Office says 8%. Both are true.](https://theadmit.uk/p/issue-012): The June data confirms the 30% fall and shows it halving, right before the months that decide September. Plus a £40bn price tag, record NSS scores, and what international students really say. - [Issue 011: CAS down 30%, refusals down 58%. The Home Office is not the one cutting.](https://theadmit.uk/p/issue-011): Enroly's 3 July data: acceptances down 13%, CAS down 30%, refusals down 58%. The de-risked intake, the market reshuffle, and what to do about August. - [Issue 010: 131% pricier in Lagos, 2% in Shanghai. Same degree.](https://theadmit.uk/p/issue-010): Hold your fees flat and, since 2023, a year studying in the UK still costs a Nigerian family 131% more and a Turkish family 108% more. Even the rupee has now joined in, and the 2028 levy lands on top. - [Issue 009: 6,700 students withdrew, 4,900 refused. The bust nobody announced.](https://theadmit.uk/p/issue-009): For the first time in over 20 years, more UK study visa applications were withdrawn than refused. The contraction is real, and most of it never shows up as a no. - [Issue 008: first choice for 21% of students. Visas down 32%.](https://theadmit.uk/p/issue-008): Keystone's 67,000-student survey puts the UK top of the world's study intentions, nearly double the US. The same week, 65% of UK universities reported a lower January postgraduate intake. The gap between those two numbers is the strategy question for 2026 - [Issue 007: High-tariff universities grew 27%. The rest of the sector shrank.](https://theadmit.uk/p/issue-007): New HEPI data shows higher-tariff universities have grown 27% since 2016 by absorbing students who would once have gone elsewhere. As the domestic cliff approaches, international is the obvious release valve. The new compliance regime just tightened it. - [Issue 006: The compliance rules are live, here is what they actually mean](https://theadmit.uk/p/issue-006): The new Basic Compliance Assessment switched on yesterday. We read the Home Office guidance line by line. Your rating is now your worst single metric, amber is barely a point wide, and a red rating cuts your CAS allocation by at least 10%. - [Issue 005: The withdrawal lever, the BCA cliff edge, and what changes 1 June](https://theadmit.uk/p/issue-005): Visa issuance is down 32%, Pakistan refusals top 40%, study withdrawals more than tripled in a quarter, and the new RAG bands switch on 1 June. What an international office should action this fortnight. - [Issue 004: King's merges with Cranfield, HESA drops, and the half of the sector no one is talking about](https://theadmit.uk/p/issue-004): A Russell Group merger, the parallel HESA and OfS releases, the BCA RAG go-live on 1 June, and the compositional shift that has rebuilt half of UK higher education. - [Issue 003: a partnership, an acquisition, and 300 displaced offers](https://theadmit.uk/p/issue-003): A ten-year Ulster and Oxford International deal, the Arete acquisition of Study Group, and what Leicester's closures mean for September. - [Issue 002. When the Russell Group cuts](https://theadmit.uk/p/issue-002): What the leaked Future Nottingham plan, the OfS Condition C6 consultation, and the £40 billion export target all point to.