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Britain’s Top Universities Chartering Planes to Fly in 1,200 Chinese Students to Claw Back £1.3billion in Overseas Fees

by Toby Young
29 August 2021 10:54 AM

Top U.K. universities are chartering flights to bring Chinese students into the country next month in an effort to overcome travel restrictions. Britain’s 220,000 Chinese students account for nearly a fifth of all tuition fee income and universities are terrified of losing it. MailOnline has more.

More than 50 universities, including Imperial College London, Bristol and Exeter, have already chartered four flights, bringing in some 1,200 Chinese students, the Times reported.

Mainland China has scrapped all direct commercial flights to the U.K. but students can travel to London via Hong Kong, which is on the U.K.’s green list for travel.

More flights are now being arranged in order to meet demand, the paper reported, citing Into HE, an international education organisation assisting in hiring the flights.

Preparations include airport transfers between Heathrow and the university campuses, along with accommodation and food for the students, who currently have to isolate for 10 days upon arrival in the U.K.

The charter flights come amid fears that income from overseas students – worth more than £1billion to U.K. universities – could dip amid ongoing coronavirus travel restrictions.

There are some 220,000 Chinese students studying in the U.K., the Times reported, with students from China providing nearly a fifth of all tuition fee income. Across the prestigious Russell Group, one in every 10 students is Chinese. After China, India is the country from which most overseas students at U.K. universities hail.

The availability of flights to the U.K. has been impacted by coronavirus, particularly over concerns about the Delta variant, prompting some universities to extend online learning and introduce multiple start dates in a bid to accommodate international students struggling to get to the U.K. in time for the beginning of term.

Experts have also warned that the focus on catering to international students risks overlooking the needs of British students, who pay nearly four times less in fees than international students.

Worth reading in full.

Tags: ChinaTravel RestrictionsUniversities

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Major Panic in the jabby jabbys
Major Panic in the jabby jabbys
3 years ago

solves a problem to access those large fees – and another benefit, our lecturers will be able to promote democracy to China’s up and comi…. – LOL – maybe not

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Norman
Norman
3 years ago

It is amazing how our oh-so-careful universties can adjust their principles when money is involved.

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Smelly Melly
Smelly Melly
3 years ago

Keeping Blairs education industry going. When my son was looking at going to uni I said no Mickey Mouse courses and no Micky Mouse Universities. (He studied Chemical Engineering at a Russell group uni).

Universities have become (more so) holding bays for the young, who self fund 3 years before going into the job market, to do a job they could of started at 16. (I was talking to somebody in the village and the grass was being cut. The person said it was his grandson cutting the grass and he had a Phd in Psychology).

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Major Panic in the jabby jabbys
Major Panic in the jabby jabbys
3 years ago
Reply to  Smelly Melly

there’s a growing industry in behaviour science

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RickH
RickH
3 years ago
Reply to  Smelly Melly

Indeed – we can be assured that those taking STEM courses will be free from undue influence, and deal only in a truth based on scientific method. That has been so obvius over the last 18 months. We need more versed in the critical thinking of a science and technology dominated culture. 🙂

The issue is less simple, and – as always ‘Follow the Money’ is the guide. Chinese students are BIG money, and offending the Chinese is not the road to wealth.

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Lucan Grey
Lucan Grey
3 years ago

Why are we using our limited training capacity as an export product?

If we wish to train Chinese students, open branches in China.

Last edited 3 years ago by Lucan Grey
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monica coyle
monica coyle
3 years ago
Reply to  Lucan Grey

But as our democratic rights are being swiftly eroded by our once Conservative government to bring about an enforced communist type regime, how useful those students will be over here to advertise the benefits of communism! What a clever ploy. The Imperial College will be delighted. I bet only the most zealous are permitted to come.

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RickH
RickH
3 years ago
Reply to  monica coyle

“communist type regime”

It’s just the natural (if unforseen by addicts) trajectory of the Tory addiction to capital accumulation at the expense of anything else, not the con of ‘communism’ used as a front for the same.

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GCarty80
GCarty80
3 years ago
Reply to  Lucan Grey

Some British private schools (which are increasingly abandoning the British middle class in favour of the more lucrative global elite) are indeed opening branches in China.

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John
John
3 years ago

Let me get this straight. 2 years ago a virus escaped from China and arrived in several countries at a time corresponding to the arrival of Chinese students to universities across the world. Since then we have had universities stopping face to face tuition, because of this virus. Now we have those same universities bussing in students from that same country.

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ebygum
ebygum
3 years ago
Reply to  John

Yep…but God forbid you want a week on the Costas!

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ComeTheRevolution
ComeTheRevolution
3 years ago

PUB’s Three Notice Process To Stop Schools Vaxxing Children
By popular and urgent demand, here lies PUB’s three notice process to deal with the clear and present threat that UK schools will be offering the experimental COVID-19 ‘vaccines’ to 12-17 year olds next month, following the JCVI’s recent u-turn on its 15/07/2021 assessment that the risk outweighed the benefits of vaxxing anybody under 18.

https://www.thebernician.net/pubs-three-notice-process-to-stop-schools-vaxxing-children/

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ComeTheRevolution
ComeTheRevolution
3 years ago

Chinese students are welcome. Chinese politics can fuck off. The UK is not a fucking COMMUNIST country. And the politicians who are committing treason by importing Chinese Communist Party policy like lockdown and vaxpass and credit scores etc, well please fuck off to China and live your fucking dream there you dirty traitorous pieces of filth. These scumbags better pay for these crimes.

Last edited 3 years ago by ComeTheRevolution
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RickH
RickH
3 years ago
Reply to  ComeTheRevolution

CCP and Tory Party = different guises in differing contexts for grabbing the boodle and the power. Simple.

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NeilofWatford
NeilofWatford
3 years ago

Academia hand in glove with the Chinese Communist Party. Bought and laid for.
Meanwhile, the CCP exploits the Chinese peoplemas slave labour and kills Christians.
How many of these ‘students’ are CCP operatives? What about stealing our IPR?
None of this matters, only the need for Vice Chancellors to top up their obscene salaries and promote their woke agendas.

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RickH
RickH
3 years ago
Reply to  NeilofWatford

It’s known as unregulated ‘global capitalism’ – favoured by both the Tories and Labour since 1980 and that ludicrous figure with the handbag.

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Sandra Barwick
Sandra Barwick
3 years ago

And the university most closely linked with China is… yes, Imperial.

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marebobowl
marebobowl
3 years ago
Reply to  Sandra Barwick

Hello Mr.Ferguson😂

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Peter W
Peter W
3 years ago
Reply to  marebobowl

How does Ferguson manage ordering from a chinese menu?
…I’ll have 200,000 Number 54,000’s please.
Are you sure?
Of course I am! My computer model says so.
Okay. Do you want wafers with that?
Course I don’t want f’ing wafers…… (copyright Monty Python)

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DanClarke
DanClarke
3 years ago

Daughter of a friend of mine, in New Zealand, was a student recruitment officer and flew in and out of China, recruiting, on behalf of the Catholic school she worked for. She’s been NZ bound for a while now so not sure what is going to happen there.

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RW
RW
3 years ago

A friendly reminder to British students: You’re forced to wear face masks etc because it is conjectured that it will help with attracting and maintaining a sizable number of these guys who are much more important than you because more money is (reportedly) to be made of that.

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caipirinha17
caipirinha17
3 years ago

Aren’t Chinese people in the uk quite successful compared to other groups eg white working class boys and BME? Yet another means of infiltration and turning the indigenous population into second class citizens?

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SweetBabyCheeses
SweetBabyCheeses
3 years ago

There were a lot of Chinese students at my university 20 years ago. I have absolutely no idea how they passed anything though as none of them could speak a word of intelligible English. I don’t mean that to sound small-minded, I’m all for studying abroad but I can’t imagine doing it without a decent grasp of the language. I just kinda assumed that the Uni didn’t mind when they were paying so much. It was super annoying to have to attempt to work with any of them on anything that wasn’t in the universal language of maths though.

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JohnK
JohnK
3 years ago

Well, lots of valuable products are made in China these days – including the students, with related cash flow for the universities. Not necessarily beneficial to our local people, though.

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marcusc
marcusc
3 years ago

Get the CCP sleepers topped up

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marebobowl
marebobowl
3 years ago

Fascinating. So universities are able to organise chartered flights for their Chinese students.. but large food organisations in the country cannot organise drivers to deliver food to Uk shops. Yes, this makes complete sense.😂😂😂😂

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sskinner
sskinner
3 years ago

And the wealth of China comes from energy generated largely by coal with a sizable amount of nuclear and environmentally disruptive Hydro. It’s a funny old world and will be even funnier if the Taliban turn up at COP26. How will the XR supporting and woke universities square any of this?

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SimCS
SimCS
3 years ago

When we are constantly under economic and security threats from the Chinese, we import this vast army of Chinese students with obvious non-west allegiance, just to earn a buck? Are we utterly barking mad?

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TheBigman
TheBigman
3 years ago

Just another way the East is winning and we are losing. When it becomes all about money this happens.

World peace may be great, we’ll never know it. Why is it bad to recognise that we have enemies.

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Peter W
Peter W
3 years ago

So they fly in Chinese students who then have to sit in the rooms remotely accessing courses? They could do that from China.
The treatment of students during the government’s pandemic shows that universities are not “centres of learning”. The insistence on mask wearing proves that.

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