Excluding Foreign Students from Migration Targets
Three-quarters of the surveyed Tory parliamentary candidates have agreed. Foreign student entrants need to be “excluded from any target for reducing migration.” Furthermore, seventy per cent of these candidates concurred that UK universities must not restrict its targets to the “brightest and the best” students. Rather, higher educational institutions must accommodate “all legitimate foreign students.” […]
Offsetting the Decline in Foreign Student Entrants
The recent HEFCE findings saw a cause for universities to be crestfallen. After thirty years of steady climb, the UK institutions witnessed its first ever decline in foreign student entrants. The decline, which is creating issues in universities’ funds, is bad news. The good news is that something is offsetting it. The growth of Chinese […]
How UK Higher Education Can Improve Being a Contributor to the Economy
The higher education sector of the United Kingdom has been contributing to the country’s economy. In the past two years alone, universities in the country chipped in an average £3.35 billion economic income in the form of services to business which includes commercialisation of new knowledge, provision of professional training and consultancy. UK higher education […]
Establishment of Black Studies to Address UK Academia Racial Gap
There are 18,510 academics in the UK. Only 85 of them are black. That is how underrepresented the Black race is in UK academia. While in the US, each field of discipline has hundreds of dedicated journals for black studies; in the UK, there is only Black Theology. Black British Academics founder and University of […]