SaralnamaThe event, held in association with King's College London on Wednesday evening, followed a student registration drive by the High Commission of India and was -streamed across Indian consulates around the UK. An annual fixture since 2023, this year's welcome reception attracted hundreds of Indian students setting out on their academic journey at the start of a new term in the UK. “The Indian student community is the largest for the third year running, at 166,000 students across the UK,” said Doraiswami, in his address to the gathering. “Our students are…
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The senior diplomat highlighted Indian students' contribution to the larger educational establishment in the UK, with students providing significant value in terms of the tuition fees they pay and also in terms of what they will give back to societies, both in the UK and India. “We think this is also a contribution to the larger India-UK relationship. It is of considerable value to us that the relationship between our two democracies is taken forward by the custodians of that democracy, that is, the young people who will inherit the running of our respective countries,” he said.
Key Points
- The event, held in association with King's College London on Wednesday evening, followed a student registration drive by the High Commission of India and was -streamed across Indian consulates around the UK
- An annual fixture since 2023, this year's welcome reception attracted hundreds of Indian students setting out on their academic journey at the start of a new term in the UK
- “The Indian student community is the largest for the third year running, at 166,000 students across the UK,” said Doraiswami, in his address to the gathering
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