They come for the prestige of a British university experience and pay upwards of £10,000 for the privilege. But with no work, no access to benefits and little support from the universities, the Covid crisis has left some international students queueing for food banks and stuck in terrible accommodation.

Channel 4 News producer Shaheen Sattar has been following the plight of the students, and talks about her very personal reasons for investigating this story. 

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