UK government have frozen the fees we can charge home undergraduates for past 8 years. Think how far that has put us behind even without the inflation bulge of past few years.
Simultaneously we have seen failure to grow government research funding across sector. Some areas have done ok, most haven’t. There has been outright hostility to arts and humanities.
Most HEIs have upped international student numbers since there were no caps on fee increases. But last government changed visa conditions allowing dependents to accompany those students. This is impacting numbers there.
So far, new government has done little to help. They did announce inflationary rate increase to home fees for next academic year. But this has been more than obliterated by changes to employee tax (national Insurance).
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