Foreign-Student Boom Both Helps and Hurts British Universities

A report published today by the umbrella organization representing the chief executives of all British universities highlights the growing importance of international students to both their financial heath and the survival of certain subjects that the government has deemed to have “strategic importance.”………..The level of foreign enrollment in strategic subjects such as biological sciences, engineering, and technology is much higher than in other disciplines, the report says, with 21 percent of undergraduates and 71 percent of graduate students coming from outside Britain.………. the large number of foreign students, particularly at the graduate level, is “worrying because it raises the question of whether we can renew our academic and research base from within the U.K.” —Aisha Labi [View Full Article]