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UK universities welcome more foreigners

Published by Afterschool.my on Aug 16, 2012, 09:01 pm

  • Foreign students have a higher chance of getting into British universities than locals as long as they can meet requirements and pay tuition fees up to £20,000 a year.
  • In a report from the Daily Mail, Edinburgh, Manchester, York, Newcastle, Sheffield, Bath and Cardiff universities are among those placing no restriction on recruitment from outside the European Union.
  • Clearing listings on the UCAS website show that places are available on 149 history courses for international students but only 24 for home/EU applicants.
  • The system is unfair to British pupils who do better than expected in their A-levels because they are denied admission, even though the university is still recruiting.
  • Universities are heavily fined if their recruitment targets for home and European Union students exceed while there is no limit to non-EU students.
  • One university vice-chancellor called for immediate scrapping of student number controls.
  • Professor David Green, of Worcester University said, “Other countries across the world, from China, to India, to Brazil to the US, realise that the best guarantee of a prosperous future is to have a more educated population, yet we are using these number controls, which is crazy.”
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