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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Eleanor Busby

Universities’ over-reliance on fees from Chinese students is ‘a risk’ – watchdog

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An over-reliance on tuition fees from overseas students – especially those from a single country such as China – is a financial risk for English universities, the higher education watchdog has warned.

The Office for Students (OfS) has written to institutions with high levels of student recruitment from China to ensure they have contingency plans to protect them from any possible drop in income from overseas students.

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