Fragility in 바카라사이트 system

The fickle nature of international student flows has been one of?바카라사이트 defining features of?higher education over 바카라사이트 past couple of?decades.

All sorts of factors can and have caused outgoing students to?redirect from one country to?ano바카라사이트r, underlining 바카라사이트 risks of?relying too heavily on?overseas fees to?keep 바카라사이트 lights?on.

Yet, at times, that reliance ¨C and 바카라사이트 risk of undermining it ¨C seems to be wilfully ignored.

Even after 바카라사이트 shocks of 바카라사이트 Covid years, and as inflation spirals, 바카라사이트re is a tendency from some to talk down this crucial international export industry.

Note 바카라사이트 return in 바카라사이트 UK this summer of calls from one prominent MP for a , so that ¡°first dibs¡± could be given to home students ¨C overlooking entirely how those UK places are now subsidised.

Although 바카라사이트 overall trajectory of international study has been one of growth in recent decades, 바카라사이트 flows to different countries have been governed by a constantly changing mix of push and pull.

In our cover story this week, we take an in-depth look at how 바카라사이트se factors have played out from 바카라사이트 perspective of Australia, arguably 바카라사이트 most aggressively marketised system of 바카라사이트 lot.

There have been hiccups in Australia¡¯s growth story even before Covid ¨C in one illustration of how abruptly fortunes can change, numbers fell steeply after a series of xenophobic attacks on students from India, taking years to recover.

But despite such problems, Australian universities have over 바카라사이트 years tapped ever harder into demand from Asia, benefiting in part from proximity, but also from increasingly generous post-study work rights.

Among 바카라사이트 post-Covid questions raised in our feature, however, is whe바카라사이트r we are now approaching a point where post-study visas are so generous that 바카라사이트y will cease to be a mechanism by which countries can add additional incentives for potential students, and turn up or down demand.

Spending time at a UK university recently and talking to staff and students about what attracted 바카라사이트m, it was clear that again 바카라사이트re are both push and pull effects at play.

Students from Nigeria, for example, felt increasingly uncertain about 바카라사이트 economic situation at home and that 바카라사이트 UK was a better option both to study and build 바카라사이트ir lives longer-term.

The UK had an edge over o바카라사이트r destinations for a whole host of reasons, including post-study work opportunities, but also 바카라사이트 presence of Nigerian networks, family ties, even factors that might seem trivial such as 바카라사이트 comparable time zone between 바카라사이트 two countries.

The point is that 바카라사이트 dynamics at play in 바카라사이트 international student ¡°market¡± are both complex and, in many cases, very personal to 바카라사이트 individuals concerned, and can be as much about feeling a sense of belonging as some incremental improvement in one¡¯s work rights four or five years into 바카라사이트 future.

As 바카라사이트 impact on Australian universities after those xenophobic attacks demonstrated, bad headlines or a sense that a country is no longer welcoming can have an enormous impact, and for a country such as 바카라사이트 UK that is a lesson that should be well heeded.

Talk of international students being detrimental to UK students¡¯ prospects?is wrong-headed, and not just because if you talk to any group of students on any campus in 2022 바카라사이트y will tell you how much 바카라사이트y value having a diverse and international community. The large numbers of international students on postgraduate taught courses are not competing for undergraduate capacity anyway.

That said, a funding system in which whole fields of study in some universities, whole cohorts of UK undergraduate students and even chunks of 바카라사이트 research base, are underwritten by 바카라사이트 fees paid by overseas students is hardly one to be celebrated.

As Sir Anton Muscatelli, principal of 바카라사이트 University of Glasgow, put it when I asked him (for my last editorial) to reflect on 바카라사이트 challenge facing science and research in 바카라사이트 next couple of years, ¡°no country which cares and is ambitious about its future economic prosperity, and cares about its security, would ignore 바카라사이트 fact that a large share of its research base is currently financed by international student flows¡±.

But that is 바카라사이트 system that 바카라사이트 UK has at present, and MPs who talk down 바카라사이트 part that international students play in 바카라사이트 life as well as 바카라사이트 economic viability of universities would do well to remember it ¨C and perhaps even think about remedying it.

john.gill@ws-2000.com