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This compounds some major long-term problems for education in the UK. 1. Their school systems are the most elitist/unequal in Europe [0] (from this TED talk [1
by icc97 9y ago
This compounds some major long-term problems for education in the UK.
1. Their school systems are the most elitist/unequal in Europe [0] (from this TED talk [1]). There are many things I love about the UK but I can never go back as the school I send my child to now for free would cost £4000-6000 per year of post-tax income in the UK.
2. Because of underpaying teachers (In comparison to Belgium the mid-level art teacher I know gets paid €100/hr) and burying teachers in red-tape there is a significant shortage of teachers. This has led to the ridiculous lottery system they now have for picking schools.
3. The Brexit is going to hit the number of European students hard. Outside of Oxford and Cambridge, most of the top 10 UK Universities are all in London with a huge contingent of European students.
So Universities are going to lose their European influx and the incoming generation of students are going to be poorer.
[0]: https://imgur.com/a/qqKDgMd https://imgur.com/a/qqKDgMd
[1]: https://www.ted.com/talks/andreas_schleicher_use_data_to_build_better_schools#t-288035 https://www.ted.com/talks/andreas_schleicher_use_data_to_bui...
- padthai 9y agoI always wondered if non-EU students are going to keep coming in the long term too. Only Chinese for example, there are 60k undergrads coming every year. That should be about $1.2B/yr for three years only in tuition fees. It is not that much money at the end of the day but it has to be important because universities are building campus overseas to capture all those students. And at some point Indian, Chinese, etc. universities will become more attractive and that money flow will stop too.
- nunya213 9y agoHonestly that's just kind of cute. Good private schools in the US regularly cost over $40,000 per year.