Can foreigners prop them up?
http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3D3556596
Jan 13th 2005
From The Economist print edition
British universities rely increasingly on foreigners to supplement
government-capped fees. Not for long, they can't
FOREIGN students keep British universities from crumbling. Some 9% of
students come from outside the European Union (EU). Their numbers rose
by a quarter last year.
There are good academic reasons for wanting foreign students, but the
main motivation is mercenary. Foreign students subsidise the
loss-making teaching of home students (and of the EU ones, who pay
domestic rates). They pay =A38,000 ($15,000) a year, compared with the
=A35,000-odd in fees and subsidies that universities get for an average
home student. Ivor Crewe of Universities UK, a lobby group, calls them
"essential". The state-funded culture-promoters at the British
Council say they are "crucial". Sir Howard Davies, director of the
London School of Economics (LSE), terms them "integral".
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