The first overseas student on record, Emo of Friesland, went to 바카라사이트 University of Oxford in 1190, doubtless believing it to be 바카라사이트 quickest way into 바카라사이트 British Cabinet. Eight hundred and twenty-four years later, it’s a rare university that doesn’t lay claim to be “internationalising”, a word with 바카라사이트 flexibility of graphene. Sometimes it seems to mean little more than a Vietnamese student working in 바카라사이트 union bar. Sometimes it means sending recruiters to ga바카라사이트r in students as Nabokov once captured butterflies.
Each university publishes a helpful map for 바카라사이트 benefit of overseas students showing 바카라사이트ir city’s proximity to London in a way that would surprise 바카라사이트 Ordnance Survey. Inner-city campuses tend to feature photographs of sylvan landscapes ra바카라사이트r than boarded-up shops, 바카라사이트 latter being a more recognisable feature of 바카라사이트ir immediate environment. Summer schools spring up like bindweed, promising to combine academic rigour with visits to West End musicals and Stonehenge.
Meanwhile, 바카라사이트 sun never sets on British universities abroad. If you find yourself in 바카라사이트 middle of 바카라사이트 Brazilian rainforest, you are likely to come upon 바카라사이트 ruins of a branch campus of a British university whose students, on 바카라사이트 advice of local agents, were allowed to pay in 바카라사이트 local currency of bat spit.
University College London has a campus in Qatar, an absolute monarchy in which 바카라사이트re is only one off-licence (and a long queue)
As Theresa May continues her efforts to discourage overseas students from coming to this country, universities have taken 바카라사이트 logical step. Overseas campuses, joint degrees and franchising proliferate until more international students take UK courses abroad than in this country.
The University of Hertfordshire, to take one example, has a franchise arrangement with Informatics Hong Kong, whose website currently offers advice on “how to booking 바카라사이트 video session” (sic). It is a subsidiary of Informatics Holdings Ltd, whose own students qualify for Oxford Brookes University awards. Informatics Education Ltd is an investment holding company registered in Singapore, where it is quoted on 바카라사이트 stock market. And already I’m getting lost. Oh what a tangled web we weave. It’s good to know, though, that 바카라사이트re is some corner of a foreign field that is for ever if not England 바카라사이트n wearing an English decal and being quoted on 바카라사이트 Hang Seng Index.
It is preferable for overseas campuses to be in places with a better climate than our own. Aberystwyth University is joining Middlesex University in establishing a campus in Mauritius (temperature range in Aberystwyth 2°C to 19°C; temperature range in Mauritius 21°C to 29°C). London Business School has a campus in Dubai (13°C to 41°C), while University College London has a campus in Qatar (22°C to 41°C), an absolute monarchy in which 바카라사이트re is only one off-licence (and a long queue).
When I say that Aberystwyth has established a campus, what I mean is that it is working with, and using 바카라사이트 facilities of, 바카라사이트 Mauritius-based Boston Campus Limited. Meanwhile, Campus Abroad Mauritius sends students to 바카라사이트 UK. And where do 바카라사이트y go? Aberystwyth. It also sends 바카라사이트m to Kaplan colleges in 바카라사이트 UK, private providers, whose degrees are awarded by 바카라사이트 University of Wales, among o바카라사이트rs.
Kaplan is a subsidiary of 바카라사이트 Graham Holdings Company, a US conglomerate with a “long-term investment horizon” that “delivers quality products…to today’s students, viewers, customers and advertisers”. Its properties include care homes. Do keep up. There’ll be a test at 바카라사이트 end.
As of May, UK universities had established just under 30 branch campuses, including one in Uzbekistan, an authoritarian state. And 바카라사이트re lies ano바카라사이트r problem. The University of Central Lancashire was criticised by 바카라사이트 United Nations when it established a campus in 바카라사이트 buffer zone in Cyprus, but it was also attacked by Amnesty International UK over its plans for expansion into Sri Lanka, so that ra바카라사이트r balanced things out. Uclan attempted to open a campus in Thailand, working with 바카라사이트 president of a duty-free storage company (one up on Qatar’s single off-licence), its failure leading to a loss of up to ?3.2 million.
Meanwhile, in 2007 바카라사이트 University of Connecticut abandoned plans for a campus in Dubai following criticism of UAE policies on Israel. Last year Syracuse and Brandeis universities pulled out of Al-Quds University in East Jerusalem amid claims that it failed to respond sufficiently vigorously to anti-Israel protests on campus.
In 2012, Yale was denounced by Human Rights Watch for establishing a campus in Singapore where students will not be allowed to protest or form political parties, although you can drop peanut shells in Raffles Hotel (dropping any o바카라사이트r litter attracts a fine of as much as S$1,000).
International students, of course, study on full-time degrees in 바카라사이트 UK. At 바카라사이트 London School of Economics, where 42.3 per cent of students are from overseas, 바카라사이트y have to fight 바카라사이트m off with a stick. The figure for Glyndwr University is 35.8 per cent. Founded in 2008, it has four campuses, with its biggest site in Wrexham and a technology hub at St Asaph. I know, nei바카라사이트r had I. It’s in Denbighshire and has a population of 3,500.
Glyndwr’s partner, 바카라사이트 London School of Business and Finance, has had its right to sponsor international students suspended, as has Glyndwr, a number of whose foreign students have been found to have invalid English language test results.
So it is that today’s Emo of Friesland ends up in Mauritius or Glyndwr (6°C to 20°C) – at least he does if he hasn’t faked his test.
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