Rules preventing foreign students from bringing dependants prompt concerns over applications and diversity.

The government’s decision has also focused attention on how business schools around the world say students’ partners make often unseen — yet valuable — contributions to the academic experience, both on and off campus. For Oluseye Owolabi, a Nigerian MBA alumnus from the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School, the ability to bring his wife and child along was a crucial factor in choosing the UK for his studies between 2017 and 2018. He would now be unable to do so, as students can no longer bring dependants unless they are on a postgraduate research programme. Click here to read the full-text article