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030OUOTAT 發表於 23-11-9 00:02 
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Cash for courses: top universities recruit foreign students on low grades
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/c19d0459-e4dd-4380-98b1-1765db01aac2?shareToken=420162fcf72c4322d1c9a1588a180492
While Britons need straight As to get onto prestigious Russell Group degree courses, their international classmates can buy their way in through secret routes
Jonathan Calvert, George Arbuthnott, Venetia Menzies
Saturday January 27 2024, 6.00pm GMT, The Sunday Times
Britain’s top universities are paying middlemen to recruit lucrative overseas students on far lower grades than those required of UK applicants, an undercover investigation has revealed.
Foreign students can buy their way on to highly competitive degree courses with as little as a handful of C grades at GCSE. The courses require British students to have A or A* grades at A-level.
Representatives of the elite Russell Group universities were secretly filmed discussing the “back door” routes used to recruit overseas students, who pay much higher fees than their UK counterparts.
One recruitment official representing four Russell Group universities laughed as he told undercover reporters: “If you can take the lift, why go through the hardest route?”
He added: “International [students] pay more money and the [universities] will receive almost double, so they give leeway for international students.” He claimed the universities did not publicise the schemes in the UK because British students “would not accept it”. He explained: “It’s not something they want to tell you, but it’s the truth.”
The “back door” routes are so lucrative that top universities are paying tens of millions of pounds a year to agents and private companies to hunt out wealthy students. Some of these businesses operate offices and run courses on university campuses, and their bosses are paid more than most vice-chancellors. The agents typically take about 20 per cent of the fees paid by a first-year student.
Foreign students pay up to £38,000 in tuition fees, which are capped at £9,250 for UK students. In the decade before the pandemic, the number of UK students being accepted by the top universities dropped significantly, while admissions of overseas students escalated rapidly.
Demand for lucrative foreign students is so great that universities advertise their courses in the Middle East, Africa and Asia and use recruitment agencies.
Watch the undercover film: cash for places exposed
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/cash-for-courses-watch-our-undercover-reporters-expose-uk-universities-7c6tksdb5
There are 15 Russell Group universities that offer special one-year pathway courses that allow overseas students to gain access to undergraduate degrees with far lower A-level or GCSE grades than the normal requirements. They are: Durham, Bristol, Exeter, Warwick, Nottingham, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle, Liverpool, Cardiff, Sheffield, Birmingham, Southampton, Queen Mary University of London and Queen’s University Belfast.
The Sunday Times investigation discovered that overseas students wishing to study an economics degree using one of the pathways needed grades of CCC at Bristol; CCD at Durham; DDE at Exeter; DDE at Newcastle; and just a single D at Leeds. Yet the same universities’ A-level entry requirements for UK students is A*AA or AAA. All five universities also accept younger overseas students, who have not taken A-levels, with just five C or B grades at GCSE.
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The special pathways — which are called International Foundation and International Year One — purport to provide an extra year of tuition after school to help students catch up with their UK counterparts.
International Foundation is a one-year course at the end of which students are moved on to the university’s full undergraduate course. Most of the universities allow overseas students to start studying the pathway course aged 16 or 17.
On International Year One, students take the course as an alternative to the degree’s first year before moving straight into year two of the undergraduate programme. Neither of the two pathways is available to British students.
Students on the pathways have to pass exams at the end of the year before joining the undergraduate degrees. However, the universities’ recruitment officials admitted that the exams were so easy that passing was a formality.
Another university student recruiter told the undercover reporters that the use of special pathways by overseas students was “starting to go crazy”. He said: “The [normal] direct entry is a bit tricky in the UK … unless you are an A student. It is like a back door to be able to enter these universities.”
A third recruitment official said at least 30 per cent of foreign students entering UK universities were using the back-door routes, which equates to more than 30,000 a year.
There are no official figures on how many students use the back-door routes. For the pathways, foreign students typically apply direct to the university or the private companies running the courses rather than through the official Ucas application procedure.
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