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).