Margaret Lenthall looks at what can be done to address the issue of chinese tuition dollars in british universities. The government's international education strategy advises universities to recruit students from many countries so they don't become overly reliant on any one country. But for some universities, that advice is just coming too late - india has about 85 thousand students studying in the u k this year. So he really does just come down to the money, then, how to break through?
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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