Exeter- Posh?

Anyone who might be tempted to agree with Jamjar ought to take a look at this table of fees and note how international students (the vast majority of whom study at postgraduate, not undergraduate, level) pay three-four times more than home students - and are generally not entitled to loans, grants, etc. In other words, they subsidise our university system - kind of valuable in these 'dire economic straights' (sic).

While studying here they buy goods in our shops, and if they work they pay taxes in the same way that home students would. Once qualified, in the event that they do overstay (or, perhaps, gain legitimate residency as they have valuable skills and something to contribute), they have worked hard for good degrees and are not exactly likely to then sit on their arses working on the kinds of low-paid jobs which are congenial to illegals.

Make all the arguments you like about other kinds of immigration, but there is simply no logical way that students who travel from abroad, at great personal expense, to study at UK universities do not provide us with a major net economic benefit - the most direct beneficiaries of which is the "indigenous school leaver" Jamjar mentions.

However most people don't realise is that most of these international students (i.e. non-EU) benefit from bursaries or grants courtesy of the UK tax payer.

The EU foreign student who is entitled to a student loan courtesy of the UK tax payer to finance his or her stay

it seems that when they graduate most fail to repay their debt

So every foreign student at a UK university really means one less place for an indigenous student with no opportunity to get that well paid job as its likely gone to the foreign graduate.

Can you provide a source to back this up?



As part of a reciprocal arrangement which entitles British students to similar treatment in the EU - and where you've put 'finance his or her stay' you mean, in most cases, just 'help to cover the cost of tuition fees' - it looks like in hardly any cases do EU nationals get help with living costs (link)



At a cost of a pretty trivial £3.8m according to this BBC news report...



If you can provide some stats on how many international students remain in the country and go into employment, vs how many return to their own countries or travel to different countries, that would help to put your argument into perspective. I can't believe that EVERY foreign student deprives a UK national of a job, as you have said.

I keep reading about how there are lots of posh students at Exeter. Is that really true? I don't want to go somewhere where people care what I'm wearing, or what type of car I'm driving.
So I'm asking..if anybody knows about that.

(And also- If I go to exeter will I see many black people?- Im scared of being the only black person in the room most of the time.)