Universities in English-speaking countries, especially Britain, Australia and the United States, have grown increasingly dependent on tuition from Chinese students, a business model that the virus could dismantle. And British universities, too, are dealing with uncertainty over European Union research money and student-exchange programmes after Brexit. Last year, more than 120,000 Chinese students enrolled in Britain, with some major universities’ student bodies now a fifth Chinese. “Nobody worried about it except Chinese students, because Chinese students know what happened and what helped in our home country,” Lu said. Now we’re pulling them out.”Some British universities are considering offering preterm English courses online and allowing Chinese students to delay their enrolments until January next year.

Source: bd News24 March 22, 2020 05:03 UTC