The broken business model of British universities
Frozen fees + fewer foreigners = big trouble
The Labour Party barely talked about higher education in the run-up to the general election in July. In government, universities’ problems are harder to ignore. In a dour speech on September 10th Sir Keir Starmer, the prime minister, included universities among a list of public services that he said were “crumbling” and “worse than we expected”.
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This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Universities challenged”
Britain September 21st 2024
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