# Admit

> The weekly intelligence brief for UK international recruitment.

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## Posts
- [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announced.](https://theadmit.uk/p/issue-009): For the first time in over 20 years, more UK study visa applications were withdrawn than refused.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.
- [Welcome to Admit. Issue 001 is here.](https://theadmit.uk/p/issue-001): What the visa data, AQF, and Erasmus+ moves mean for your territory plan.

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## Authors
- [Spencer Withrington](https://theadmit.uk/authors/spencer-withrington)