Top British Universities ‘Discriminating’ Against UK Students For Big-Money Foreign Applicants


Some of the countries’ top higher learning institutions including Oxford and Cambridge, prefer to recruit foreign students with poorer qualifications to British ones, a Sunday Times study reports.

23 of the Sunday Times’s top 50 universities were found to have substantially cut British undergraduate numbers since 2008.

The number of British undergraduates across all universities has fallen since 2008, despite 17% more applications being made, while the numbers of non-EU students, who can pay up to four times more than British and EU ones, has risen by 39%.

The investigation revealed that thousands of overseas students are being granted ‘fast-track’ admissions to leading British universities without A-levels or equivalent qualifications from their own countries, only being required to complete short foundation courses lasting as little as six months.

The courses, which typically cost between £15,000 and £23,000, are offered by private companies that have struck partnership deals with dozens of universities and promise foreign students a ‘guaranteed’ university place upon completion.

‘Don’t meet the entry requirements to apply directly to university? We can help,’ states INTO, one of the companies offering the courses, and offers ‘100% guaranteed progression to university.’

Another company, Study Group, is also heavily promoted by its agents in Singapore as offering a ‘100% guaranteed University place.’

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