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    Die britischen Universitäten in der Finanzkrise

    https://theweek.com/education/uk-universities-why-higher-education-is-in-crisis

    Von lighthouse77

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    1. Old-Aside1538 on

      Good. Most of them shouldn’t be universities in the first place.

    2. jonnyynnoj125 on

      Maybe they can seek investment from abroad, considering they’re pricing out uk students in favour of wealthy foreign ones.

      Just to be clear, I’ve got nothing against foreign students coming here to study, but uk universities should be affordable to uk students first.

    3. Cultural_Champion543 on

      Stop turning universities into elite-factories where the pupils are customers and the teachers/professors are basically just employees, then.

    4. test_test_1_2_3 on

      The entire funding model of universities needs to be scrapped and completely redone.

      Right now universities are incentivised to cram as many people in to useless courses and build low quality student accommodation.

      I have no sympathy for the institutions themselves but I do have sympathy for the students that are effectively agreeing to be taxed at a higher rate for the majority of their working life in exchange for 3-4 years of low quality education.

      Burn it down and start again.

    5. JayR_97 on

      Labour should have but the bullet and raised the fees to £12.5k (What the fees should be if they had gone up with inflation), £9.5k won’t actually fix the funding problems unis are having

    6. Gorthaur91 on

      What’s not in crisis in the UK? Private companies only as it seems

    7. Worldly_Table_5092 on

      Let them crash. I will make my own that is a hotel with a whiteboard.

    8. Shas_Erra on

      It’s almost like an infeasible loans system and insane price hikes were a bad financial model

    9. OliverE36 on

      Not enough foreign students paying the $$$ since Brexit. And prices are capped for UK students.

    10. Old-Aside1538 on

      Half of our universities shouldn’t be universities because they have record numbers of international students who are bringing their relatives, adding to the surge in population. At second and third-tier universities, those students are being used to plug holes in business models that are completely broken. The students come in to do one-year MAs; about 25% of them drop out before those degrees are finished. Professors are told to go easy on the marking because they can’t fail people from Nigeria and India, etc. because they need the money. They simply add to the Ponzi scheme that is the UK economy.

    11. MrGenRick on

      Oh no! My gender studies class at the University of Central England!

      We need 288 universities/equivalent!

      Wait…there’s 288?!!!

    12. Legitimate-Source-61 on

      They are always running out of money. Remember the days before tuition fees?

    14. StiffAssedBrit on

      Is there anything, in Britain, that hasn’t been run into the ground and is now barely functioning?

      Seriously. Does anything still work in this country?

    15. SchoolForSedition on

      The universities that borrowed millions in the noughties and just after the GFC to fund rebuilding and its byproducts securitised their future fee income as Eurobonds to pay for it.

      So quelle surprise.

    16. swoopfiefoo on

      Why is it that other similar countries like France and Germany can provide university for a tiny percent of the price?

      And other countries like Denmark can provide it to their own citizens and even to foreign citizens for free?

      Not suggesting we provide free education to foreigners but surely we can lower the price for our own citizens?

    17. MrBiscuits16 on

      I think Uni’s should scrap non-STEM. There should be separate forms of education for the arts, you really shouldn’t need to follow a traditional degree route if that’s what you want to do.
      STEM courses should have higher fees but the government should subsidise students to take them, similar to how they do for students taking courses in health care.

    18. NathanDavie on

      What has their expenditure looked like every time tuition fees have risen? When I went to university, shortly after the rise to £9k, construction projects were everywhere.

      Tuition fees are a large cheque for absurd spending that hits the treasury and puts a mental strain on students, even if they’re not going to pay the loan back.

      I’m all for spending money on education, but there should be more governmental oversight. Nationalise them all instead of running this weird half and half system.

    19. Srapture on

      Not too long ago, universities all jumped on the opportunity to triple everyone’s tuition fees. How are they now in trouble so soon?

    20. GoatOfLochmarne on

      As a non-academic member of staff at a university currently facing a bigger-than-projected deficit, now in the process of making over 100 members of non-academic staff redundant (and that’s less than 2 years after making a round of 400+ staff cuts which “steadied the waters”) whilst *doubling* the amount of executive staff members earning over £150,000 and primarily resting their laurels on international recruitment, despite the projected decreases in international student numbers and therefore, a decrease in international fees… who could have seen this coming?

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