UK unis look to cash in on foreign students
Changes in UK university fees mean more than ever foreign students will be in demand. What will mean for people with degrees from this places? Will this hurt Britain's standing amongst education destinations for Asians?
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode...
valid point linc.
The old polytechnics like Birmingham City University (Birmingham Polytechnic), University of East London (Polytechnic of East London) and Manchester Metropolitan University (Manchester Polytechnic) have been doing this since becoming 'real' universities in 1992. Using posh sounding names like De Montfort University (Leicester Polytechnic) or cashing in on proximity to proper universities Oxford Brookes (Oxford Polytechnic) these places have been trading degrees for cash for years.
These places have no endowments or alumni base for donations, unlike Oxbridge, University of London, Edinburgh, and a handful of others, so they rely entirely on tuition and fees for income.
Some of them have legit courses, but there is an awful lot of graft going on at places like De Montfort that is notorious in UK higher edcuation for recruiting Middle Eastern and South Asian students to pay full fees so that it can subsidize other programs.
Changes is fee structures will just mean lower-tiered universities will rely more heavily on being diploma mills for foreign students and that there will be an upwards creep to affect a few more of the struggling universities.
There is are reasons why graduates of different universities are paid better and are in more demand than others, and this is one of them. Buyer beware and all that.