University challenge
An in-depth look at funding for UK universities. Of particular note, like the United States, is the role international students’ play in funding Universities. Equally important is how students are beginning to view their education on a cost-value basis. A student states “(Education) it’s becoming monetized. When students go to a lecture they think, ‘I haven’t got my £40 to £50 of lecture there’, rather than, ‘Is this interesting?’”
On the financial side, UK Universities are fully engaged in the education arms race hiking tuitions, raising $1.39bln in publicly traded debt in 2015, and building facilities such as the £200m “Translation and Innovation hub at Imperial College London. Of course they have to be in our interconnected world, many of our students consider UK and Canadian Universities.