Top UK universities face funding and foreign student shortage

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By AFP

04 June 2024 | 8:53 p.m.

Some of UK's apical universities could spot their attractiveness diminution owed to hits to backing and tighter regulations connected overseas students, the yearly QS 2025 assemblage rankings warned connected Tuesday. Four British universities retained their spots successful the apical 10 of much than 1,000 universities ranked by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), a benchmark ranking alongside the…

Some of UK’s apical universities could spot their attractiveness diminution owed to hits to backing and tighter regulations connected overseas students, the yearly QS 2025 assemblage rankings warned connected Tuesday.

Four British universities retained their spots successful the apical 10 of much than 1,000 universities ranked by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), a benchmark ranking alongside the Times and Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Imperial College London, renowned for its subject teaching, changeable up from sixth to 2nd place, dethroning for the archetypal clip the historically ascendant “Oxbridge” duo, with Oxford and Cambridge ranking 3rd and 5th respectively.

More than fractional (52) of the UK’s universities were bumped down connected the list, retired of the 90 that were portion of the ranking.

“This year’s results suggest that British higher acquisition has constricted capableness remaining to proceed excelling successful the look of backing shortages, drops successful pupil applications,” and restrictions affecting the intake of planetary students, said caput of QS Jessica Turner.

In the past fewer months, the Conservative authorities has introduced respective measures to trim regular migration which it judges to beryllium excessively high.

These including barring overseas students from bringing dependents and hiking the minimum wage needed for skilled workers visas.

The policies person been criticised by universities, whose budgets are heavy babelike connected the higher fees paid by planetary students.

In the archetypal 4 months of the year, 30,000 less pupil visa applications were made than successful the aforesaid play successful 2023, according to authorities statistics.

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