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UK universities face growing struggle to recruit international students (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 4 months ago by RubberDuck@lemmy.world to c/uk_politics

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[–] atro_city@fedia.io 23 points 4 months ago (6 children)

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...

[–] JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works 10 points 4 months ago (5 children)

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.

[–] ScreamingFirehawk 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 months ago

That is so sad yet it does line up with my experiences. Thank you for the info.

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