Only the elite....
Only the elite universities in the UK will be allowed to take in foreign students. Apparently the Oxbridge educated cabinet is willing to damage every other university in the country but not their alma mater.
The stupidity of this knee jerk reaction to one year’s immigration figures, massively distorted by Ukraine and the post Covid return of students, is staggering.
Most universities in this country subsidise their UK students with foreign fees, in fact they are totally dependent on the money they bring in. It also increases the UK’s soft power by creating thousands of well-educated, powerful Anglophiles a year and boosts tourism and sales of UK goods abroad.
Messing with it is without doubt one of the stupidest things any government could do.
On top of that, the quality and range of the UK’s university system is one of the few international advantages the country has.
Even threatening that economic advantage would be insane.
But if it helps the Tories win the votes of the racists, the bigots, the swivel eyed loons and the people happy to drown babies in the Channel, then it is doubtless a price the Tory party is willing for the country to pay.
Economics, trade and Brexit, not necessarily in that order but the dog always comes first.
By Jonty Bloom Media