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4. That decline hasn't hit all subjects equally.
At a time when international recruitment is central to so many conversations about the sector's finances, having subject-level data on who is studying what at postgraduate level matters.
3. While undergraduate SHAPE enrolments continue to rise, postgraduate taught numbers tell a different story: down around 14% from their 2022/23 peak, driven largely by a fall in non-EU students.
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These figures need careful reading, but they raise an important point: where provision is uneven or concentrated, the ability to move should become part of how we understand access works in practice.
