Foreign undergraduate students pay much higher tuition rates than domestic ans. Right now, chinese students probably bring in around two point five billion pounds per year. But some academics are worried that being so financially dependent on a single country could compromise free speech.
Viktor Orban’s eight-year assault on the country’s institutions will help his bid for re-election. But the poll is far bigger than Hungary: it is a verdict on autocracies everywhere. Britain welcomes the fees from its staggering number of Chinese university students; we examine the risks that dependence poses. And a prescient Ukrainian war film gets a new lease on life.
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