Exactly what scholars said would happen when the immigration policies were announced. Drops in international students, leading some universities to take more domestic students, leading other universities to budget deficits because they can't hit enrollment targets. www.bbc.com/news/article... - ThreadSky

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bakerdphd.bsky.social • 113 days ago

Exactly what scholars said would happen when the immigration policies were announced. Drops in international students, leading some universities to take more domestic students, leading other universities to budget deficits because they can't hit enrollment targets.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd65yl81947o

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danhicks.bsky.social•113 days ago

You can have good universities and you can have ethnonationalist universities, but you can't have good ethnonationalist universities

bakerdphd.bsky.social•109 days ago

Clearly they won't be the last institution with cuts due, at least in part, to the country's anti-immigration policies. Edinburgh announced their own cuts today and said "The drop in income was partly blamed on a lower number of international students coming to the UK."

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c204kn5n4z6o

ktthomas.bsky.social•113 days ago

If I were a student from another country, I wouldn’t be coming to the US in this political climate.

bakerdphd.bsky.social•113 days ago

This is about the UK

amyrey3.bsky.social•113 days ago

Why is the UK having these issues too?

bakerdphd.bsky.social•113 days ago

The UK has been underfunding higher ed for a bit

Here's one good overview of some of the challenges

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/11/the-guardian-view-on-campus-cuts-academics-pay-a-high-price-for-westminsters-mistakes

triplingual.bsky.social•109 days ago

It's been such a tragedy to watch both what they have done and what the valiant UK professoriate that knows what's happening has been trying to do. And to know it's coming for us, too.

milly9001.bsky.social•113 days ago

This article is about the UK

ktthomas.bsky.social•113 days ago

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