Maybe stop treating education like a business might help
> Tuition fees for home students have been frozen at £9,250 a year since 2017. But as a result of rising inflation experts calculate that their real value has now plummeted to £6,000
Except for the students paying them, funny that.
It’s a conundrum, alright… how do you continue to run a university with student fees decreasing in real terms?
If only these Russell group universities had vice-chancellors with the financial acumen to address that challenge… maybe they should continue to raise the vice-chancellor salaries until they attract the right talent?
I wonder what percentage of the expenses actually go toward senior management’s extravagant salaries, ostentatious campus construction, or private company investments in student housing.
Just relax. After Sunak announced an increase in visa fees, they won’t draw as many international students.
Maybe go back to a time when most people went into industry through apprenticeships. Also promote more free MOOCs as a way to earn a degree through micro-learning.
It is easier for these Universities to milk foreign students than to change fundamentally to meet the needs of modern, tech-led education. Disruption is something for someone else when you can still charge a guy from China £50K to get a mediocre experience.
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Maybe stop treating education like a business might help
> Tuition fees for home students have been frozen at £9,250 a year since 2017. But as a result of rising inflation experts calculate that their real value has now plummeted to £6,000
Except for the students paying them, funny that.
It’s a conundrum, alright… how do you continue to run a university with student fees decreasing in real terms?
If only these Russell group universities had vice-chancellors with the financial acumen to address that challenge… maybe they should continue to raise the vice-chancellor salaries until they attract the right talent?
I wonder what percentage of the expenses actually go toward senior management’s extravagant salaries, ostentatious campus construction, or private company investments in student housing.
Just relax. After Sunak announced an increase in visa fees, they won’t draw as many international students.
Maybe go back to a time when most people went into industry through apprenticeships. Also promote more free MOOCs as a way to earn a degree through micro-learning.
It is easier for these Universities to milk foreign students than to change fundamentally to meet the needs of modern, tech-led education. Disruption is something for someone else when you can still charge a guy from China £50K to get a mediocre experience.