Several resignations have taken place in the universities and many redundancies have been declared in the institutions, including Dundee, Edinburgh, Robert Gordon, among others. The Interim Principal, Dundee, Professor Shane O’Neill, admitted this month that the scale of the deficit had been “lurking for quite a long time and has only just been fully understood”. Two English universities had to ask Nigerian students to quit their courses because of unpaid fees. Robert Gordon, also particularly affected by currency fluctuations in Nigeria, said student numbers had fallen “off a cliff”. Graeme Dey, the higher education minister, said it was “unwise” for some universities to become over-reliant on tuition fees from Nigeria.

Source: The Times March 17, 2025 03:44 UTC