I’m pretty sure that pandering to racists is what passes for a popular mandate there.
Comment on Golden age of English universities could be over, says head of watchdog
Emperor@feddit.uk 5 weeks ago
The restrictions on foreign students needs to be lifted ASAP - they help subsidise the rest of higher education and cutting their numbers was just pandering to racists.
GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 5 weeks ago
Wanderer@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
The value of higher education cones from things like higher taxes and lower crime.
Trying to run a university like a business is fucking stupid.
Universities could cost the government a shit load of money for all I care. But losing British education in the name of foreign money is the exact case of short term thinking that has made this country as crap as it is.
If you want to think of some 50 year plan. It should be about educating more British students to do roles than are required. Not about bringing in foreign students to make a short term buck.
jacksilver@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
On the flip side a lot of places then just become diploma mills pushing international students through programs because they pay full price. You see this a lot in the US, where money is first and quality education second.
HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 5 weeks ago
True. But foreign students have always been a huge amount of UK university funding. Basically from as far back as the 1800s.
Limiting them is not the solution. Nor is it the cause of diploma mills. Reduction in government funded research grants is what forced uni to move to tick box education. And government desire to avoid administration costs is what leads to Unis without the strong educational ethics taking advantage of it.