With international student enrolment likely to fall dramatically this year, UK universities can no longer rely on overseas fees to fill government research deficits, the president of King’s College London has said.
The president of KCL, Shitij Kapur, has said that the unstable funding equilibrium of UK universities is being maintained by an “inherently precarious” model which is dependent on international student fees.
In a panel discussion on February 7 following the publication of his paper, UK universities: from a Triangle of Sadness to a Brighter Future, Kapur said that the future of the UK’s scientific research cannot be left to the decisions of “well-off families in Delhi and Beijing.”
“Universities have sustained themselves by increasing the number of international students, but this is getting caught up in immigration debates,” said Kapur.
