Il prelievo internazionale degli studenti potrebbe costare università inglesi £ 600 milioni all’anno
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/aug/08/international-student-levy-could-cost-english-universities-600m-a-year
di F0urLeafCl0ver
Il prelievo internazionale degli studenti potrebbe costare università inglesi £ 600 milioni all’anno
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/aug/08/international-student-levy-could-cost-english-universities-600m-a-year
di F0urLeafCl0ver
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It will only cost them if they dont pass on the costs, which they almost certainly will do, and foreign students will gladly pay.
UK universities are genuinely world class, while still being much cheaper than their US counterparts.
UK universities.
– Almost half are already in deficit and most expected to be very soon (https://theweek.com/education/uk-universities-why-higher-education-is-in-crisis).
– 80% failed to achieve international targets last year – mostly due to the governments new visa system.
– Dubai etc are paying universities to clone their degrees and be associates – competing directly. Universities can’t resist the requests because they are desperate for the cash.
– International students already prop up their struggles
– the cost of a degree was set in 2010 – with small increases but WAY below inflation meaning universities struggle more and more year on year. This year, many had large scale redundancies – axing many professors – the main driver for international students coming here. Most are getting job offers in Dubai etc – our competitors.
Another tax on this system and it could all upend. I’ve already seen clinical training degrees collapse that folk said were rock solid a few years back.
As if International Students aren’t already paying through the nose:
– Fees are £25,000+/year
– They usually live in halls which cost upwards of £18k/year
– Visa costs £524/visa
– Immigration health surcharge is £776/year.
– Flights, cost of living, and study materials are extra.
It’s costing them more than the average salary in the UK to study here, and we want to tax them further while the sector is collapsing because home students nor tax payers can’t be asked to pay the true cost of higher education which is essential to our economy.
The reality is that lots of these universities need to close. All those former polytechnics and colleges should never have became universities in the first place. It’s no loss.
There isn’t even enough jobs for the people currently in university let alone more.
Well the fact 5% of students claim asylum every year is costing hundreds of millions for the UK.
Majority of the students from Africa and South Asia will study any old course just to get a foot in the door to transition to living in the UK permanently. It’s trivially easy to do so.
The students from China are doing it for the prestige and the experience. Ironically UK is losing its prestige and China is building theirs.
The article suggests 14,000 students would be discouraged. Let’s just get rid of some of these garbage universities. There’s too many anyway.