I don’t think they do a very good job marketing to the US. Compare to the US, even international student tuition is dirt cheap. It’s a good way to earn an equivalent degree for less in English. Many of these institutions are well known in the US. If you go to Imperial college for stem you will absolutely be good with employers in the US. Same with schools like LBS, Oxford, Cambridge.
But the problem is still that less and less people will want to go to universities imo. And rightly so, the return on investments is getting worse and worse unless you go to particular universities for a particular field.
If by “it’s” you mean: aggressively cutting public support, and then using international students as ATMs to fund the system, I agree that “it’s” going down unless the product being sold is a degree at Oxford, Cambridge, and the like.
The article is correct. The drop is due to the immigration changes regarding dependents, which was a knee jerk reaction by the previous government to high immigration numbers. It’s the mid and low tier unis, that have recruited heavily from places like India and Nigeria over the past few years, that have been impacted. Top tier unis are fine.
In a way, yes. However, with the massive increase in the percentage of UK students attending university from 1997 onwards the public coffers couldn’t have easily paid for their tuition fees.
UK student fees are currently capped at just under 10k a year, which isn’t enough for universities to survive. Overseas students are charged at free market rates, so currently anything up to 33k a year. I think the general figure is 16k or so.
So, it’s not really a neoliberal issue because there’s a government cap on UK student fees that’s created the problem. That combined with burgeoning university administration costs.
Either go free market, or don’t. UK governments tried to fudge it. A classic British cock-up.
So basically my tuition was subsidizing my UK classmates
I’ll never understand why British people think their tuition is too high to go. First of all, even if you go and you end being a barista, you literally do not need to pay student loans if you don’t make enough money. It doesn’t hurt your credit. And after 25-30 years, it gets written off if you don’t pay it all by then.
It’s literally risk free. You only need to pay if you make enough money after school.
Student debt affects future borrowing such as mortgages, although not as much as other debts.
I think most people view it as an additional tax. Once you start earning enough to have to start paying it off you have less disposable income. I can understand how young people are resentful that they have to pay it when people like me didn’t.
Yes, and that is how they mostly market the Uni’s, just like a luxury brand. Quite a bit is spent on marketing, ads. A good portion of the schools fees go to ad firms, and marketing.
In an effort to curry favour with the precious PRC market, one university in the UK shut down faculty research on human rights and supply chains. You wouldn’t want to upset Beijing!
Agree. My son will be going to school in the cheaper EU model in France, but that’s because he’s thrived in their high school system.
As someone who has two Russell Group degrees and went to Berkeley as well (not to mention UBC in Canada for undergraduate and then Executive), I think both the free market and public options are fine. Give people the choice. Let the student decide what meets their needs?
I also have a BTEC so I have technical ed as well! Variety is the spice of life!
They UK/ Canada schools pay agents and lots ads (in this industry, see a lot target Asia, India ect), on student agents they spend millions of quid, students end up paying a high percentage of their fees on this
Maybe in the past, but the federal government has for a few years been capping numbers of international students so the schools have no more incentive to advertise because they can’t accept the students. Your article says it is from 2023 and doesn’t mention Canada…
Most schools/colleges/universities pay a commission for the agent to represent them, and this covers the agent’s operating costs, so the answer will usually be ‘yes’. Regardless of whether the agent is paid a commission or not, they should give you high-quality and unbiased advice.
An investigation into allegations that Sheffield Hallam University [in the UK] faced sustained pressure from China to shut down human rights research has been referred to [UK] counter-terrorism police.
The BBC and the Guardian newspaper have been reporting that documents show China waged a two-year campaign of intimidation and harassment, including demands the university stop sensitive research by one of its professors into claims of forced labour in the Xinjiang region of China.
A South Yorkshire Police spokesperson said the force has referred the investigation on because the “allegations fall under Section 3 of the National Security Act”.
We have thousands of doctors and engineers arriving weekly , our hospitals are over flowing with them. We need people to give useful skills like cab driving.
