Foreign students to reportedly be barred from UK unless studying at top universities

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  1. This will bankrupt many minor universities, reduce housing values, reduce supply of skilled workers, reduce research output, reduce the global influence of the UK, reduce gdp. Good job Rishi. Ironic though, since a lot of those rejected students will be Indians like your parents

  2. Surely it’s the well known university towns which are having student housing issues and not the small unknown university towns? This fixes nothing.

  3. Let me guess, this is a money making measure?

    I assume a top university require a way larger annual feel compared to a normal one.

  4. So let me get this straight: more prestigious universities (most notably Oxbridge, but also the other members of the Russell Group) will continue to have access to the huge revenue stream that international students provide, on top of their pre-existing endowments. Meanwhile, other universities (especially the post-1990 former polytechnics), which generally have less money already, will lose out on a major source of income.

    Now which of these universities are cabinet ministers more likely to have attended, and which are more commonly chosen by working class students, often the first in their family to go to university? And what are the consequences likely to be for the tertiary education sector in the UK?

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