University bosses are planning to price less wealthy students out of education
University cash claims: are foreign students really pushing lower-paying UK candidates out of education – or are they subsidising the places?
Tuition fees should never have been introduced, of course – and this just proves it.
The bosses of four universities – Sunderland, Cardiff, Sheffield Hallam and Gloucester – have said the government needs to increase the cost of tuition for UK students, or they will overlook domestic students in favour of foreigners.
They say the frozen rate of £9,250 for UK students is not enough, meaning they have to take on an increasing number of applicants from countries such as China and India, who pay average annual fees of £24,000.
It is certainly true that a fifth of places at Russell Group universities were awarded to overseas students, an increase of seven per cent compared to last year. Meanwhile, the number of British undergraduates declined by 13 per cent.
But are universities really suffering from anything other than greed?
The University and College Union (UCU) is currently balloting for industrial action on the basis that academic institutions finished the 2020/21 financial year with £3.4 billion more than they started it with – but rather than spend some of the money improving pay and conditions for staff, they are putting £4.6 billion into “vanity” construction projects.
If they have money for that, then they can’t be struggling too hard – can they?
And the government has claimed that the university bosses’ argument is false.
According to the Telegraph, a spokesperson said: “It is a myth that offering a place to an international student takes a place away from a student in the UK. They actually support the creation of more places for domestic students.”
And the government said it is providing £750 million in extra funding for universities over the next three years.
So it seems to This Writer that uni bosses are just getting greedy. Am I right?
Source: Tuition fees for British students must be increased, university bosses warn
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Universities are now corporate so it is good business practice to demand domestic students pay higher fees! The fascist tory dictatorship for nearly 13 years now has been declaiming profit is good and everything is for sale including education!