Professor Veronica Campbell:

On the Deputy's comments about exploitation, nobody in this room would like to see domestic or international students exploited as they navigate their university experience. Certainly, we are all doing everything we can to ensure that does not happen. There is a very supportive environment for the students and a scaffold of holistic supports around that. We do step in if we hear about anything untoward.

In terms of the balance and the profile overall of the domestic and international students, we have about 500 non-EU international students across our cohort of 18,000 students, so we are very much a domestic market. Inward mobility of talent and talented students into the south-east region is really important, as is the outward mobility of our students in order that they get the same experience or, indeed, have internationalisation experiences at home in terms of their overall development as individuals. All of our technological universities are members of European universities, and that does bring international European students in and our students engaged in those European universities, which is hugely valuable for their own personal and academic development.