Study in England has always been prestigious and always expensive. Today, tuition fees in these universities reaches 9250 pounds a year, making England the most expensive country in Europe for the cost of University education. The students of Scotland, study in their universities for free. Provided free training and arrived in Scotland students from EU countries. But for students from England, Wales and Northern Ireland, they must pay tuition in Scotland. And in higher education institutions in England and Wales a free “gingerbread” higher education was not there.
Britain has for many years been a magnet for foreigners wishing to obtain an elite education in her celebrated schools. In 2005, the UK was listed third country in the world in the value of education. After tuition fees raised to 3 thousand pounds a year, UK universities were the second most expensive after New Zealand and Japan. To be a student at Albion was 50% more expensive than in higher educational institutions of the United States.
In 2010, the then Minister for business and innovation Vince cable has delivered a revolutionary call to abolish entirely the tuition fee in the universities of the country. In this case, graduates would be obliged to pay an increased tax on their earnings and income. However, this idea the British government was not accepted.
What is going on with the renowned British education today? Nothing good. Rapidly approaching Brexit significantly devalues the idea of education in Britain. The rating of higher educational institutions of this country falls for the fourth consecutive year. As noted in the table of ranking of world universities, compiled by the research group QC (Quacquarelli Symonds), about three-quarters of UK universities fell in the rankings an unprecedented low.
In the international table of rating of the illustrious University of Oxford was moved from 4th place to 5th. University College London (UCL) has dropped from eighth place to tenth. Of 84 universities in the UK 62 University for the fourth consecutive year fall in the international ranking lower and lower. Only Imperial College has managed to maintain its credibility, rising from ninth position to eighth. The universities of Cambridge and Edinburgh remained where they were. His seventh place was kept Cambridge and twentieth – Edinburgh.
the Number of foreign students coming to study in Britain, fell today in 50 of the 150 universities of the country. The head of the research group QC Ben Soler explains the decline of interest in the universities of Britain the low level of teaching and the deteriorating quality of the research. He believes that professors and students from Europe and ��around the world might not perceive Britain an attractive place of study and teaching.
Covid-19 has also done its dirty deed: the number of foreign students in Britain in the epidemic has declined. With the departure of overseas students, the British Treasury has been taking significant losses: foreign students pay for their studies in Britain far more than its citizens.
Today there are increasing fears that many UK universities will be left without a livelihood if the government does not provide them with financial support. The British Council in its report, released earlier this week, warns that this year at the universities of Albion could be on 111 thousand less than their students, and 121 thousand from abroad. An April analysis by the London school of Economics, warns that the reduction in the number of foreign students can turn to Britain a black hole in the amount of 2.5 billion pounds.
