Over-reliance on Chinese and other international students has put England’s universities at financial risk, a higher education regulator warned on Thursday.
The Office for Students (OfS) said it has written to high-risk universities, asking them to lay out contingency plans to protect their financial sustainability.
It comes as a China-focus think tank said it’s writing to regulators and universities that are hosting Chinese state-sponsored Confucius Institutes to ensure a new law will be enforced if the institutes failed to protect freedom of speech and academic freedom.
Over-Reliance on Foreign Students a ‘Key Risk’
In a report (pdf) on the financial sustainability of higher education providers in England, the OfS said one of the key risks the providers face is reliance on international student recruitment, “particularly from a single country such as China.”…