Outrage over cuts to teaching and support staff
The University of Exeter’s proposal to cut 150 teaching and support posts, citing rising costs, has provoked a strong response from staff — 85 per cent of whom backed opposition in an earlier ballot — and a petition approaching 20,000 signatures. Students there should ask which modules are affected before choosing options for next year.
Which Welsh universities depend most on international fees
Wrexham University draws 29.6 per cent of its total income from international tuition fees, the highest reliance of any Welsh institution. Dependence of that scale is what turns a fall in international recruitment into a restructuring programme — and it is published in every university’s accounts, which makes it checkable before you apply.
The recruitment industry needs a reset
An argument that measuring international recruitment by enrolment numbers has produced the current mess — agents paid per student, universities entering markets they cannot serve, and students arriving to courses that do not suit them. The proposed alternative is measuring outcomes, which would change who gets recruited and how.