{"id":474849,"date":"2026-03-14T07:38:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T07:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/474849\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T07:38:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T07:38:13","slug":"eu-insists-on-tuition-fees-cut-as-price-of-brexit-reset-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/474849\/","title":{"rendered":"EU insists on tuition fees cut as price of Brexit reset \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Universities say they will face a cash crisis if lucrative foreign fee income is cut and not replaced, with one recently published analysis by the Russell Group suggesting the sector would be left <a href=\"https:\/\/inews.co.uk\/news\/politics\/brexit-cost-uk-universities-cheaper-fees-4202185?srsltid=AfmBOoq9vWNFS06kRNDj5mfLGZcob_OIjDgC_pMx1qMmBqaUwc_L0XUP\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/inews.co.uk\/news\/politics\/brexit-cost-uk-universities-cheaper-fees-4202185?srsltid=AfmBOoq9vWNFS06kRNDj5mfLGZcob_OIjDgC_pMx1qMmBqaUwc_L0XUP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u00a3580 million out of pocket<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A U.K. official said the home fees demand wasn&#8217;t mentioned in the &#8220;common understanding&#8221; drawn up as a blueprint for talks last year \u2014 and that negotiations are about implementing that document.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement does not explicitly mention tuition fees and only says the youth scheme should &#8220;facilitate the participation of young people from the European Union and the United Kingdom&#8221; in areas including study.<\/p>\n<p>But the EU official quoted above said that, while it was debatable whether the change was alluded to in last year&#8217;s communique, it was nevertheless the EU&#8217;s position.<\/p>\n<p>They stressed that other issues under discussion, like the planned agri-food agreement or linking emissions trading systems, were largely U.K. &#8220;asks&#8221; \u2014 and that the EU also had its own interest to pursue.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s important to look at the position from the other side,&#8221; they added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Universities say they will face a cash crisis if lucrative foreign fee income is cut and not replaced,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[934,459,1398,2360,309,59,57,58,420,2363,50,56,54,55,570],"class_list":["post-474849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-brexit","tag-crisis","tag-education","tag-emissions","tag-england","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-keir-starmer","tag-negotiations","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474849","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=474849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}