Almeno sei unis a rischio di fallire prima del 2025 Freshers finisse i gradi

This was the inevitable result of relying on international student fees for so long and expanding cohorts way too much. What an absolute mess.

It was “up to 10” in February, so the situation is at least improving….

[https://inews.co.uk/news/education/ten-universities-could-go-bust-risky-private-teaching-3546527](https://inews.co.uk/news/education/ten-universities-could-go-bust-risky-private-teaching-3546527)

They need to bail them out long enough to get the current cohort through and then just let them fail, the dream of having everyone go to uni has obviously failed / achieved nothing

This is a crisis at many levels and yet it seems like no one in a position to be heard is challenging the usual idiots who are saying that some universities need to go bust because we shouldn’t be educating so many people. Or that everyone should be doing STEM.

I’m about as STEMmy as it gets. My degrees are all from well-known and competitive institutions. Yet I think, like most of my colleagues do, that we educate too few people. It is 2025 and there should not be school-of-lifers anymore. That is, the people who bleat, either from ignorance or insecurity, that kids don’t need an education and universities are bad should have been shamed into silence decades ago. It’s only in the UK that this sort of ignorance persists and it hurts everyone.

1. Yes, we need more STEM opportunities. The reason we don’t have them is 14 years of Tories. British people seem to think that we don’t have more STEM workers because kids aren’t good enough to get into university, but what is actually happening is that there aren’t enough places. If you voted Tory, you are responsible.

What this means is that we thieve hordes of foreign workers whose own taxpayers paid to train them while condemning our own kids to hard, unstable lives in retail or hospitality. In many fields (like mine), decently paid, stable jobs go to foreigners and our own kids are shut out because we don’t provide opportunities for them to get an education, not only at university but also at school. All of the programmes that worked so well under the last Labour government for providing kids not only with decent school education but also basic life skills and soft skills and other opportunities have been shut down.

2. Insecure bloviators love to sh*t on non-STEM degrees but people who actually have “hard” degrees and are good at what they do don’t do that. We need an educated populace. There are all kinds of skills that almost any degree gives people. People who do administrative and other support work where I work and who have degrees in whatever make my life a lot easier and my work much more efficient than do people with no higher education. It’s 2025 and we are competing with countries where there are much better and more training opportunities.

By shutting people out of education and continuing to important huge numbers of foreigners, we’re hurting our own kids and ourselves. Foreigners focus on learning the language and integrating into society. People who already have those skills and connections can focus more easily on starting businesses and innovating, which leads to better jobs for all kinds of workers.

The bottom line is that the problem is NOT that we have too many universities and degree opportunities, but far too few for a successful modern economy. The problem is that the government (and many voters) has REMOVED vast amounts of funding and has not invested in education.

Not surprised, I’ve no idea why people pay to go to uni to earn slightly above minimum wage. You can do that without accruing any debt.

Why not have a pricing model for different degrees?

So some stem degrees will cost more than say a Humanities degree.

Why should the humanities student subsides the STEM student who will likely earn more upon graduation?

Some will argue that this will put off students from doing STEM degrees.

I lecture at a university as a freelancer. I did a few open days for them. I cannot tell you how much theyre pushing recruitment. Its massive. Theyre spending big on wooing these kids. Domino’s pizza, drinks, snacks. They’re just desperate to get bodies through the door. We had a poor recruitment two years ago and they cant survive on low numbers again. Its a business, and prospective students are our customers.

Not really surprising. At the university I work at it costs something like 12 grand a year to teach an average student. For my degree, physics, it’s over 20k/year. Now there’s not enough foreign students to top up the UK ones it’s hemorrhaging money at a crazy rate.

My wife works at a uni. She says the waste and clerical staff with very average capabilities is on par with the NHS.