'So can universities actually make money through branch campuses, particularly in India? Or do their overseas ambitions risk worsening their already dire financial prospects?' Profits figure throughout each part of this extensive analysis; pedagogy and research are nowhere mentioned. Speaks volumes. - ThreadSky

eicathomefinn.bsky.social • 2 days ago

'So can universities actually make money through branch campuses, particularly in India? Or do their overseas ambitions risk worsening their already dire financial prospects?' Profits figure throughout each part of this extensive analysis; pedagogy and research are nowhere mentioned. Speaks volumes.

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garethknapman.bsky.social•2 days ago

A lot of the time they are glorified high schools.

darrenmcleanuk.bsky.social•2 days ago

I'm interested to see what the universities who are not in strife did, or didn't do that kept them sound.

jowolff.bsky.social•2 days ago

I think such ventures have had a pretty low success rate so far.

eicathomefinn.bsky.social•2 days ago

Yes, the article makes that clear. Even assuming these are simply cash cow ventures, very limited evidence that the cows are reliably producing cash surpluses over time.

jowolff.bsky.social•2 days ago

Gave up my subscription to THE long ago. Was too depressing.

chrisbrooke.bsky.social•2 days ago

Think how many league tables you will have missed!

jowolff.bsky.social•2 days ago

Yes, there's that bonus too.

I started subscribing to what was then the THES as it was the only way of finding out what was happening in my own university when I was head of department.

williamcarruthers.bsky.social•2 days ago

I often wonder at the people who seem happy to throw cash at this sort of thing with a) no experience of how work/education in the countries involved actually works b) apparently zero due diligence. Who is selling the magic beans to them?

trefeca.bsky.social•2 days ago

Consultants. And one another. VCs and other “Senior leaders” like to imitate one another. University A has a campus in, say, Cambodia — University B will plonk one in Myanmar.

trefeca.bsky.social•2 days ago

Not just India. Odd to see Cardiff putting its hope into Kazakhstan. I have fond memories of the good old days when British universities, even RG redbricks, gave serious attention to meeting the needs of their own communities & regions. Welsh universities seem to have abandoned their own past.

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