UK universities should consider charging lower tuition fees to international students from poorer countries, according to a sector leader.
Adam Habib, director of SOAS University of London, said that “unjustly” high fees for overseas learners were being wilfully excluded from the debate over how to fund higher education, and that fees should be set at a level that was more reflective of the costs involved in running such courses.
Currently, international fees are “truly skewed”, with some students charged a 400 per cent mark-up on the actual cost of their education, Professor Habib estimated.
