@oldhorse. I understand how you feel. I am not British, I am here on a working visa, like many other non-EU nationals. I am from Singapore and my parents were immigrants, as were their parents before. I would like to think that three generations of Chuas have contributed to Indonesia, Singapore and the UK.
There is a genuine concern that the current visa regime, which was designed to allow highly-skilled people like yourself to benefit from and contribute to the UK, has loopholes which has allowed lower skilled people to enter the labour force. Whether you agree or disagree with the baseline philosophy that there should be free movement of labour regardless of skill levels is a separate matter.
Unfortunately, the current proposals for tightening the Post-Study Work Visa has been more over-reaching than a simple closing of the loopholes. Business schools and universities in the UK recognise the damage that this could do and we, as well as many students, have made their views known through the consultation process. It is now up to the government to weigh the pros and cons of their proposals. You can read my post from December about the visa changes.
https://www.thecambridgembaadmissions.co ... -unknowns/But ultimately, I see this as a test of whether UK business schools are really as global as we have said all these years. Because if we are global in our outlook, then our fortunes will be tied, not with the UK, but with the global economy and to the areas of fastest growth, or the areas with the most interesting socio-economic problems that our MBAs will feel inspired to solve. Even before the visa changes, many of our students have been switching their focus from the UK to emerging markets --- the person with the highest number of job offers from last year's class was from India and he went back to India to a great job, and he started a new business as well to tap into India's growth.
And the fact that we are a global business school is why many of our UK, EU and US students attend Cambridge. They benefit from the interactions with a global cohort, and they gain global experience through consulting projects like our Global Consulting Project. Just to give you an example, for the team that is going to China to help a company that is trying to tap into the fitness market there, we have an Australian, an American who worked in Europe, and two Chinese. For the group that is going to Thailand to help an NGO, we have a Dutch-Canadian, an American and a Malaysian.
The dynamic will be very different in an Asian business school.