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The Economist
The Economist
17 Sep 2024


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The broken business model of British universities

Frozen fees + fewer foreigners = big trouble

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The Labour Party barely talked about higher education in the run-up to this year’s election. In government, universities’ problems are harder to ignore. In a dour speech on September 10th Sir Keir Starmer, the prime minister, included universities among a list of public services that he said were “crumbling” and “worse than we expected”.

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