With the dawn of 2020 came one of the biggest questions UK universities
has ever faced: what will their campuses look like after Brexit?
Universities have long been proudly European in their approach: more
than 143,000 EU students from outside the UK are enrolled in British
institutions, and EU citizens make up 18 per centof academic staff. But the new post-Brexit immigration rules might change that forever.
No longer classed as “home” students, EU applicants will soon join other internationals in requiring separate visas for work and study. Where once EU citizens were charged the same fees and had the same access to student loans and scholarships as their British classmates, their fees will be required upfront. And with their new international status, those fees are no small change: starting from the 2021-22 academic year, EU students enrolling at English universities will likely be charged tuition fees of up to £26,000 annuallyfor an undergraduate degree. On July 9, Scotland confirmed it would follow England in charging EU students international fees; announcements from Wales and Northern Ireland are expected over the coming weeks.
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No longer classed as “home” students, EU applicants will soon join other internationals in requiring separate visas for work and study. Where once EU citizens were charged the same fees and had the same access to student loans and scholarships as their British classmates, their fees will be required upfront. And with their new international status, those fees are no small change: starting from the 2021-22 academic year, EU students enrolling at English universities will likely be charged tuition fees of up to £26,000 annuallyfor an undergraduate degree. On July 9, Scotland confirmed it would follow England in charging EU students international fees; announcements from Wales and Northern Ireland are expected over the coming weeks.
At £9,250 per year for home students, the cost of
studying in most of the UK is already high when compared to the rest of
Europe. Tuition fees in France are a snip in comparison at €2,770
(£2,400) per year, and several countries – including Germany, Denmark
and Norway – charge no fees at all. It raises the question: can
universities still rely on EU students wanting to come to the UK at all?
Announcing the changes on 23 June, universities minister Michelle Donelan said
she was “confident” about the UK’s ability to continue to attract
European students, staff and researchers in spite of the changes. It’s a
statement that Anne Marie Graham, chief executive of the UK Council for
International Affairs, agrees with to an extent.“The UK will remain
attractive to EU students because of its very highly respected education
system,” she says. “We will not go from having several thousand EU
students to zero, but it's inevitable that numbers will fall because the
issue is two-fold.”
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Brexit plus coronavirus could spell disaster for Britain's universities | WIRED UK
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