With school budgets growing constantly tighter, and a new cap on the number of spaces for domestic student spaces in Great Britain, many universities are increasing their efforts to [subject:'toefl' draw international students to their campuses]. However, this idea has not been met with unmitigated praise. British Council has sent a warning to schools looking to use international students as easy cash without providing proper value to those students.
Council chief executive Martin Davidson said: “It would be seriously counter-productive and, in the long run, potentially self-defeating, for universities to focus on intensifying student recruitment drives as a knee-jerk reaction to current financial difficulties and state funding cuts.
“International students have more study options today than ever before, and in an internet-connected world word quickly spreads when it appears a university regards them as little more than ‘cash cows’ Davidson cautioned. And “in today’s rapidly evolving marketplace, overseas governments will react against foreign universities that are clearly only interested in recruiting students from their country and giving nothing in return.”
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