TORY “spin” about the number of international students at Scottish universities has been dismissed as “xenophobic” and wrong.
TORY “spin” about the number of international students at Scottish universities has been dismissed as “xenophobic” and"wrong".
The number of Scottish students is capped because their fees are paid for by the Government, which Gomersall said was because the “amount of funding that universities get from the Scottish Government for each Scottish student isn’t actually enough to deliver their education”.campaigner, said: “The reality actually is the more international students they recruit, the more money that they have to be able to support the home students in Scotland.
She added: “This is what the Tories are trying to do, they’re trying to spin it into this sort of there are more international students, significantly more international students coming, and therefore the proportion of home students is therefore lower. The Higher Education Statistics Agency figures also showed that in 2007-08, international students made up 5.3% of undergraduates in Scotland, compared with 10% in 2021-22.
“It's easy to turn the stats into shocking-looking percentages but I think that hides the reality – that 56% increase in applicants is an increase of about 20,000, but the 84% increase in refusals is only 7000 of those.
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