UK Politics

For years now, our government and a large vocal chunk of our population are doing their best to keep foreigners out, cut ties outside of the country, and make it very clear that if you're not British you're not welcome here.

Why would universities be surprised by this turn of events? They've seen it happening for years now.

Furthermore, even young people from the UK are reconsidering university too, partly because we were all deeply lied to about how useful a degree would be in getting a job,

and partly because thanks to huge changes over the past 15 years in the costs of university and costs of living, it's become impossible for many young people to attend university even if they wanted to.

Some groups in the UK are working hard to both restrict access to education for our own people, whilst also working hard to keep foreign people out of the country.

Think about that for a moment, and you may be as worried as I am.

Education, along with the mixing of cultures and peoples is important for the health of any free, prosperous nation. But these things are the enemy of authoritarians, fascists...

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...

UK universities are fucked. Government made it about how much tuition fees they could earn, and they could earn way more from overseas students than from actually skilling up the populace. Now the Chinese are reaching a tipping point where they don’t need to go overseas for education anymore, and the entire UK system will collapse without that money.

I think they are doomed. Visa rules for foreign students, who pay a lot more than British ones, make it less attractive than it used to be. And in general, the benefits of having a degree don’t make up for the ever increasing cost of that degree. My local Uni is shutting down many courses and getting rid of a lot of staff. Not just courses that some would label pointless either, it includes nursing for example.

Brexshit anyone?

This is the best summary I could come up with:

UK universities face financial turmoil as figures from the Home Office show plunging numbers of international students applying for courses starting in the next academic year.

Most student visa applications are received over the summer, leaving many universities hoping that things will improve by September.

Jeff Williams, Enroly’s chief executive, said the latest data showed that international student recruitment for September had been on a downward trend since the start of the year.

“Our UK university colleagues are working tirelessly to continue to attract international students to their programmes.

If Enroly’s figures are representative of the sector, about 150,000 fewer international students would arrive on UK campuses this autumn.

If better exam grades encourage more school leavers to go to university, that would offset the expected losses from international students.

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