I found this sort of thing quite disheartening when I was sent out to recruitment fairs in Mexico a few years ago. I'd have terrific, enthusiastic conversations with kids who were desperate to come to the UK to study, and they had looked at the literature and were really up for it, and then right at the end of the conversation would be "and you have scholarships?". At that point I'd wearily gesture towards the British Council stand and say "no, but you could try over there", knowing that there was no way they could make it to the UK without a scholarship and no way they'd get one. Overseas students = cash cows, though universities are reluctant to put that in their advertising. There was one woman who had driven a hundred miles to Guadalajara, and had her heart set on doing a particular MSc, to the point of having decided which hall of residence she was going to live in and was asking me about local volleyball teams, then the dreaded question of scholarships arose. Then I came back to the UK and all the spotty English kids who are doing degrees they aren't much interested in because, well, no particular reason but you have to do something, don't you?