UK universities face growing struggle to recruit international students
UK universities face growing struggle to recruit international students
Applications for sponsored visas have plummeted since new restrictions brought in, raising financial fears
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The root of the problem is treating universities as a business. Education should be free. I find this sentence particularly disgusting
Mark Corver, the chief executive of DataHE, a higher education consultancy, said the reliance on international student fees was a symptom of the previous government’s failure to increase domestic tuition fees from £9,250 for nearly eight years
It's a failure to increase tuition??? What the goddamn fuck is wrong with you people? Are you trying to become the USA?
The UK is so fucked...
I first went to university when it was just over £3k in fees. When I returned to university, it was over £9k.
Honestly, and this may just be my experience, though everything seemed better in the before days when the fees were much less. I'm not sure what universities are doing with the 3x increase but it seems like feck all.
I agree with you. Education should indeed be free, and the costs are just there to try and gatekeep learning of all things.Central funding for further education has been cut massively since tuition fees were increased, so they have had an overall reduction in income from teaching
That is so sad yet it does line up with my experiences. Thank you for the info.
Curious to compare that to the US. What years were those?
2009 was the year of my first enrollment, and I returned in 2016.
Hope this helps! I found the experiences wildly different.
In the US, for public universities, that went from about $12K to $16K. I ask because when I was in university back in the early 2000s it was only about $6K…. Oh, and those costs are per year, not total.