IN a recent student production of "Romeo and Juliet" here, the two lovers had to compete for audience attention with Asian drums, a police siren, a hit parade of oldies and a Shakespearean character (Mercutio) who kept reappearing after he was stabbed to death.
Ask qualifications, number of recent students, number of students who passed check ride on first try.
The impact of such rhetoric is already being keenly felt – a recent National Union of Students (NUS) survey of more than 900 international students found that 40% of students would not recommend studying in the UK to a friend.
Professor Cunningham, 30 years old, said he chose activism as the theme because of a recent surge of student protest.
A recent survey of students in a dozen of France's most prestigious schools found that about 12percentt wanted to start their own companies as soon as they got out of school.
A recent survey of students in Sofia, Bulgaria's capital, suggested that 15% of them planned to leave the country, but in smaller towns and in the countryside the figure is probably much higher.Take Troyan, a town of 25,000 some 120km (75 miles) east of Sofia.
A recent study of students in the Netherlands explores one possible aspect of that complexity: the influence of average differences in competitiveness on students' choices of curricula.
Mrs May said: "Nearly half of all students coming here from abroad are actually coming to study a course below degree level and abuse is particularly common at these lower levels - a recent check of students studying at private institutions below degree level showed that a quarter could not be accounted for.
"I have never been so busy in this position," said Hansen, describing a recent deluge of students scheduling appointments with counselors.
