[arista]

BBC News Text:
[Immigration minister Robert Jenrick
has criticised universities for the number
of places being offered to foreign students,
according to the Metro.
The paper reports that almost 40% of
non-EU nationals who arrived in the
UK last year were students.
Speaking in the House of Commons
on Thursday, Mr Jenrick said
"it isn't right that universities in some cases
are in the immigration business rather
than the teaching and education one".]


The problem is the Student
brings in their family as well.

[bitontheslide]

if the universities dont get the cash from foreign students they will go bust

[arista]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

if the universities dont get the cash from foreign students they will go bust

Yes but they are now greedy
A Principal in a University
told me there are far too many in Universities.

Creating Mega Cash flows.


Sure Take in the students
but do not get greedy by overloading the amounts.

[LeatherTrumpet]

Half these "universities" need closing down. Kids should learn more trades.

[Soldier Boy]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

Half these "universities" need closing down. Kids should learn more trades.

A bit over-simplistic to say that all kids should be learning trades - yes we could do with a few more tradies, but obviously if you have too many then the market is over-saturated and no one can make any money.

Good quality higher education will be useful no matter what you do in life although yes the caveat there is "good quality" - actually teaching higher learning/thinking and critical analysis, not degree factories just churning out more rote learning.

And perhaps, people should take on a degree when getting that degree becomes part of their career journey... rather than getting the degree first "for the sake of it" and then trying to shoehorn it into a career. In hindsight, 18 seems young for Uni unless it's to start down a specific track that has a long training time (e.g. medicine) and most young people would probably find themselves with a clearer vision of what they want to do if they waited until 21.