Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

[Gutter Boy]

They'll have even less if EU students are able to pay the same fees as UK students, I'm sure I read universities make a loss on each UK student even at £9K a year. They're all propped up by grants and overseas fees.

Yeah, absolutely. Students cost £12k but are only funded at £9k. The extortionate international fees make up the difference.

The proposal though is that the government will fund at least the £3k shortfall to universities if the EU student goes ahead, as it's effectively the UK's fee for entering that completely unrelated Made in Europe scheme.

 

[P.D.]

Yeah, absolutely. Students cost £12k but are only funded at £9k. The extortionate international fees make up the difference.

The proposal though is that the government will fund at least the £3k shortfall to universities if the EU student goes ahead, as it's effectively the UK's fee for entering that completely unrelated Made in Europe scheme.

The potential net value is lower though, there will be a higher percentage of students paying the UK rate and there's probably only a handful of places like LSE, Cambridge etc that could raise international fees to make up the difference.

 

[Gutter Boy]

The potential net value is lower though, there will be a higher percentage of students paying the UK rate and there's probably only a handful of places like LSE, Cambridge etc that could raise international fees to make up the difference.

There haven't been many European students since Brexit. They just didn't bother paying the international fees, and were replaced by Indians and Nigerians etc.. So it's not international fee payers converting to home fees, its potentially an expansion (to help counter the demographic drop of British 18 year olds).

 

[ricky2tricky4city]

Of course it ties both parties together. There are drawbacks, as in if the stock tumbles or the company goes out of business, but if the Govt were gifted the shares in the first place they won’t suffer the losses.

Not saying I’ve got a business plan in place but it would be an effective method of addressing inequality. Imagine if this could pay for universal healthcare in the US for example?

Haha you're not following the golden rule.
Follow the money.

It's because they need data centers, and that is going to be the biggest political hot potato in the next ten years

So what do you do? Drag the government into your corner by giving them a fair chunk of your company gratis.