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About a third of students at the North East鈥檚 universities are聽from overseas and they are charged large fees to study here.

The number of visas issued has fallen due to tighter rules aimed at cutting immigration and that鈥檚 led some to fear a 鈥渓ooming crisis鈥� in higher education as vital revenue is lost.

Peter Harris has been looking into this.