Insightful article by Ricardo Garcia in Expresso on the spike in applications from Portuguese students to study in the UK. Applications have increased by 17% while EU numbers have declined. In a short interview, I mentioned that this increase might be due to (i) increased visibility of UK universities because of widely-reported initiatives undertaken by PARSUK; (ii) excellent reputation of UK universities and strong presence in HEI rankings; (iii) many UK universities guaranteeing Home fees for EU students for the time being; (iv) dominance of English as lingua franca and language of science. (Previous generations of Portuguese students were particularly strong in French, so studying in France might have been more appealing in the past.)
Click here to read the article (in Portuguese).
Here goes a graph from the article that shows the latest UCAS figures by EU country:
