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India High Commission hosts welcome reception for newly arrived students in UK hosted a special welcome reception for the Indian students who have just started their academic journey across universities in the United Kingdom (UK). The event saw a gathering of approximately 700-900 students, making it one of the largest student welcome events hosted by the High Commission this year. "As a whole, new cohort of young students from India come in here to take up educational opportunities at the undergrad or post grad level in the UK, to take advantage of some of the best universities and courses available. It is a pleasure to be able to welcome you to the UK. My colleagues and I at the High Commission of India, as well as our consulates in Edinburgh, Manchester, Belfast and Birmingham, are all here in the hope that we can offer some service as you settle in," he said in a social media video post. Welcoming the students, Indian High Commissioner to the UK Vikram Doraiswami also claimed that Indians are not only the largest group of foreign students in the UK but also the brightest and best who help strengthen the bilateral relationship. “The Indian student community is the largest for the third year running, at 166,000 students across the UK,” said Doraiswami. Our students are among the brightest and the best that we have, and your presence here is a reflection of all that you are capable of doing and the value that you bring to your studies, to your research… but you also add economic value, and it’s important to emphasise that your presence here supports businesses." He highlighted the valuable contribution of Indian students to the UK’s higher education ecosystem, not solely in terms of the high tuition fee, but also through their long-term impact on societies in both 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.
