More English Seek University Bargains in Germany ... I wonder what this will mean for the British economy for the next 10 to 15 years, and beyond.
It would be interesting to hear someone who voted for one of the parties that supported the rise in tuition fees to an eye-watering £9,000 per year answer that. These parties are not working in the interests of British students, that much is obvious. In the meantime, it seems that international students make up the difference. LINK
What is not being said here is why there have been tuition hikes. And the reason is simple: more students. You can thank the members of Parliament that have brought in so much many migrants, who have in turn been quite busy being fruitful and multiplying... well, not so much the "fruitful" part. The same thing has been happening in California too. http://www.politicalforum.com/educa...rants-affecting-californias-universities.html
Yes they do make up the difference___________by leaving like I left the University of York after my 1st year. And wasn't even international student, but EU student Anyway, if the Brits are scared away by the 9000 pound tuition fee, what can be expected of the international/EU ones whose economies and incomes are in most cases way lower?
Hmmm what you say doesn't match my experience at the University of York. We, the non-British were a handful of people in our entire department which had around 200 students. At the university there were lots of Chinese and Asians indeed but never ever felt they exceeded the British. I also spent some time at a friend in Cambridge and although I didn't study there what I saw around academic buildings suggested the same.
Well, here's another reason they are making British students pay more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/educatio...-will-keep-cost-to-foreign-students-down.html They want to continue to subsidise all the foreign students. Low-income Scholarships If your student is not one of the lucky few that receives a scholarship, then they become one of the unlucky few who helps pay for what others receive. This becomes a perpetual problem that seems to feed on itself. As college costs rise, more students need scholarships. As larger scholarships are given, it continues to raise the price of higher education for the remaining students. This leaves more students needing scholarships to meet the skyrocketing costs, and so on. More low-income children in the UK is going to make it more difficult for all the other students, not to mention diverting scholarships and financial aid from the low-income students born to non-immigrant parents.
Foreign students are hardly subsidised. Yes many universities will accept and subsidies an exceptionally gifted foreign students, but the appeal of foreign students is that the fees they pay are much much higher than fees charged to nationals. Many colleges use foreign ( by which I mean non EU as EU students must be accepted on par with nationals) students to subsidies the schools.
Just because the foreign students are paying much higher fees does not neccessarily mean they are not still being subsidised. I would have to know how much it actually costs the government to send each student through university, and what fees the foreign student is being charged at that particular university.
