As you report, luring foreign students to Britain is getting harder (“And is there Honey Still for Tea?” November 21, 2009). “Although America leads the world in attracting foreign students to its campuses,” you add, “Britain and Australia are not far behind.” Nonetheless, they are still way behind America, and Britain is likely to stay there if nothing serious is done about it. Namely, many foreign students do not come to Britain only for a good degree, but also for a job to match after graduation. After a bout of xenophobia in the wake of September 11, 2001, America is now welcoming foreign students with traditional hospitality. In addition, it is welcoming the best of graduates to stay. Britain is neither welcoming nor attractive by comparison with America. The same holds for the European Union across the Channel, where some of the British graduates may wish to go. And this is where something serious ought to be done soon. Britain and the Union would gain a great deal by attracting the best and the brightest from around the world. But only try telling this to a surly bureaucrat or a myopic politician!