一箭双雕！格拉斯哥大学招生暴涨到1000国际生，戏说英国教育的未来

越上人间

One of Scotland’s leading universities hopes to recruit more than 1000 additional overseas students over the next few years to stave off the impact of crippling budget cuts and increase the institution’s international profile.
Glasgow University said the increase – which would net the institution millions of pounds in revenue – would be concentrated on both postgraduate and undergraduate courses.
The university already has a population of 2500 international students, but its principal, Professor Anton Muscatelli, said he was targeting at least 3500 in future years.
“One of the elements about our current strategy is that we want to be a global university,” he said.
“One important dimension of that is that we want to be able to continue to attract academically talented students from around the world.
“We have grown, over the last few years, the number of students coming from outside the EU to about 2500 and we would like to grow that further to 3500 or so over the next few years, possibly more, through development of more postgraduate courses, but also through increased recruitment at undergraduate level.”
Mr Muscatelli stressed there was no impact on home students from the university recruiting additional overseas students because of the way the Scottish system is funded.
The number of home students is tightly regulated by the Scottish Funding Council, but universities can recruit as many overseas students as they like.
The move comes at a difficult time for Scottish universities, with uncertainty over future income and dire warnings over the impact of cuts to public funding.
In a recent letter to staff, Glasgow University forecast it would run out of money by 2013 unless action was taken to raise income and make savings – amounting to £20 million.
Shortfalls of this magnitude could even force some institutions to close, while academics fear further redundancies and course cuts.
The move to capitalise on the lucrative market in overseas students has become a familiar theme for Scottish universities in recent years.
In 2000, there were just 7395 postgraduates from outside the UK in Scotland, but this number has risen to more than 15,000 in recent years.
The increase has been largely fuelled by an influx from outside Europe, as universities court talented students from the Far East, Asia and the Indian subcontinent. Because such students pay full fees at a market rate – with the annual cost of some courses reaching £12,000 – the financial benefit to universities is marked.
Other universities have tried to cash in, with Glasgow Caledonian entering into an agreement with a private provider to recruit overseas students and prepare them for degree level-study.
The institution has also opened a satellite branch in London in an attempt to take advantage of the market there.
However, lecturers’ union UCU Scotland has warned about the impact of too large an influx, arguing that there is a possibility universities will start “skewing” what they offer to suit overseas students, rather than home students.
It has also warned against universities becoming too reliant on the fees of overseas students, with a spokesman saying: “Countries such as China and India are building huge universities and there is a danger that, as students go to universities in their own countries, the market will suddenly collapse.”

越上人间

看了英国政策的发布对英国教育影响很大啊？不知道会不会产生很多连锁反应呢？不过从格拉斯哥大学未来对国际留学生的招生计划可以看的出来。大家也说说你觉得英国这个政策对英国教育的影响，对于格拉斯哥大学的学生这又代表着什么？对于打算去格拉斯哥的国际生来说这又代表着什么？

usher878787

英国人还真是把教育当生意做了。。。

ileonleonliang

必然反映。

Ishara

唉 这样下去啊  会不会教育质量下降啊？

This is

工作签对长期有影响吗？

ghws

原帖由 This is 于 2010-12-17 09:48 发表

                               
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工作签对长期有影响吗？

肯定有影响，PSW都要取消了，工作基本没戏了

零之焦点

有种8、900都是国人的感觉

szwd_86

都说国人精明，那只是小聪明，再看英国人才是真正的聪明，我们是一只只待宰的羔羊，明知虽倾其所有仍前途迷茫，还趋之若鹜的往里挤，是我们想不明白还是我根本就没去想？反正我也没弄明白，这是为什么呢？

Jenny_Jiang

不错，看看！

Leonard

很好很强大啊！