According to British Council statistics on the number of UK visas issued to Taiwan students, in 1989 only about 1500 Taiwan students were studying in the UK. In 1995, that number surpassed 5000, and greatly increased again by the year 2000 to 8567.
根據英國文化協會統計近幾年核發的台灣留學生簽證人數顯示，一九八九年赴英國念書的台灣學生只有一千五百多人，到了一九九五年一舉突破五千人，二○○○年更是大幅增加到八千五百六十七人。