{"id":115579,"date":"2025-09-05T04:15:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T04:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/115579\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T04:15:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T04:15:03","slug":"britains-universities-feel-the-heat-of-its-migration-culture-war-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/115579\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain\u2019s universities feel the heat of its migration culture war \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The decline \u201chas \u2026 been increasingly difficult,\u201d said Arrowsmith, stressing \u201cone of the main sources of funding that was helping to mitigate the reduction in resource is \u2026 no longer quite as stable.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"685\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/13118477-1024x685.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7091214\"  \/>Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson insisted the government will \u201calways welcome international students where they meet the requirements to study.\u201d | Andy Rain\/EPA<\/p>\n<p>While international fees rose without any cap, domestic tuition fees were frozen from 2017 until this fall at \u00a39,250. Despite rising to \u00a39,535, the hike in employers\u2019 national insurance contributions hampered extra savings \u2014 forcing universities to tighten their purse strings.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.universitiesuk.ac.uk\/what-we-do\/creating-voice-our-members\/media-releases\/universities-grip-financial-crisis-what\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Universities UK survey<\/a> of 60 institutions in May found 49 percent closed courses to reduce costs, up from 24 percent in spring 2024. In the same month, the Office for Students, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.officeforstudents.org.uk\/news-blog-and-events\/press-and-media\/ofs-analysis-finds-continued-pressure-on-university-finances\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">regulates higher education<\/a>, forecast a third consecutive year of financial decline in 2024\/25.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInflation has been particularly high,\u201d argued Arrowsmith, \u201cThat really exacerbated the situation,\u201d particularly when there were \u201cincreased expectations\u201d on academic research.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s little surprise the House of Commons\u2019 Education Committee is <a href=\"https:\/\/committees.parliament.uk\/work\/9012\/higher-education-and-funding-threat-of-insolvency-and-international-students\/publications\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">investigating potential insolvency<\/a> within higher education institutions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Department for Education reiterated that the independence of universities meant they must ensure sustainable business models.\u00a0But Willetts and Hodge disagreed on whether increasing domestic fees would improve the situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The decline \u201chas \u2026 been increasingly difficult,\u201d said Arrowsmith, stressing \u201cone of the main sources of funding that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[55542,816,934,55110,625,8926,1398,309,42611,59,57,58,2923,12336,2795,1431,1349,55543,420,55544,821,50,547,3721,1338,472,1219,56,54,55,11854,637],"class_list":{"0":"post-115579","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-bailout","9":"tag-borders","10":"tag-brexit","11":"tag-bridget-phillipson","12":"tag-british-politics","13":"tag-department","14":"tag-education","15":"tag-england","16":"tag-financial-stability","17":"tag-gb","18":"tag-great-britain","19":"tag-greatbritain","20":"tag-growth","21":"tag-higher-education","22":"tag-immigration","23":"tag-inflation","24":"tag-insurance","25":"tag-jo-johnson","26":"tag-keir-starmer","27":"tag-margaret-hodge","28":"tag-migration","29":"tag-news","30":"tag-research","31":"tag-rishi-sunak","32":"tag-skills","33":"tag-stability","34":"tag-tourism","35":"tag-uk","36":"tag-united-kingdom","37":"tag-unitedkingdom","38":"tag-visas","39":"tag-westminster-bubble"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}