So far 6,507 have arrived in Australia – a little over half the intake announced by the Abbott government in 2015.
In management education they account for only about one student in three, but in law and medicine they now make up about half the intake in most countries.
This is a school where more than half the intake has English as a second language, 50 per cent are on the special- needs register, 40 per cent have free school meals, and pupil turnover, because of often chaotic family circumstances, is high.
Half the initial intake had either been in prison or shot.
They made up half the new intake at graduate level but only 10% of the candidates for partnership.
'Since the 1970s,' says Professor Richard Mithen of the IFR, 'the selenium in our blood plasma has gone down and is currently half the recommended intake.
Even paying tuition fees of about £3,000 a year, as against up to £9,000 now, almost half the 2006 intake to English universities had debts of £20,000 or more, with survey participants' average debt about £16,000.
One woman talks of starting a diet 18 months before her wedding; another has bought a wedding dress three sizes too small as motivation; another is living on 1,000 calories a day - half the recommended intake - for six months, and feels that she is "letting herself down" by having a cup of tea, due to the calorie content of the milk.
So, for example, if a secondary finds itself slipping towards being single-sex, it should have the choice of ensuring that half of the intake comes from each sex.
