Universities and colleges in the UK may lose their ability to recruit international students if more than 10% of the international students they recruit are refused visas, the Home Office has announced, as it continues its crackdown on immigration and visa abuse. A discretionary approach will be applied to those schools enrolling 50 or fewer students.

David Cameron has told UK schools that it is "time to look beyond the traditional focus on French and German and get many more children learning Mandarin". The Prime Minister announced a number of measures to boost Mandarin teaching in the UK on the last day of a trade mission to China.