Why do oversea's students have to pay more for University education?

It's not there fault they were born in a country with less - they should pay an equal amount and everyone should compete for university places - there shouldn't be a 'quota' of any nationality... it should be based purely on who would gain the most from university, and academic merit.

why should they pay upwards of £16000 a year for university education?

And how exactly is the UK expected to cope when all of its graduates return to their country of origin and it is left with no skilled labourers?

Just an argument i was having today, sort of stems from immigration arguments etc.


Basically, if someone is born in an third world country or developing country without access to quality higher education, why should they pay upwards of £16000 a year for university education?


It's not there fault they were born in a country with less - they should pay an equal amount and everyone should compete for university places - there shouldn't be a 'quota' of any nationality... it should be based purely on who would gain the most from university, and academic merit.


I know bursaries are available but that barely brings the cost down at all. Also, universities should absolutely not be able to make money by exploiting the misfortune of others.

Why should they pay the same as someone whose parents have been paying towards the system for years.

Makes sense. I think international students should pay the cost of education and nothing more, however universities end up charging more than the cost of education and lowering admissions standards slightly to get this money.

And how exactly is the UK expected to cope when all of its graduates return to their country of origin and it is left with no skilled labourers?

Maybe by making it less than a pain in the student's ass to get a work permit once he/she graduates?

It strikes me as quite funny how people like to go on and on about immigration and yet there seems to be little concern about the lack of a "post-study visa" for international students who graduated from an UK university, having paid enormous fees to do so. It is bad for absolutely everyone involved.

Anyway, obviously the fact that overseas students never paid taxes in the UK is at the core of the subject. However...which home student actually pays 9,000 pounds upfront? There are a number of financial aids available - the student loan itself is highly beneficial. To charge foreign students sometimes more than 50% of that value seems hardly reasonable.

International students are the only ones who are treated on the "show me the money" basis, which then might (as it does) lead to their being accepted into universities due to this very same fact. So much for the closing of bogus colleges "selling immigration, not education", huh?