Fortress Britain: Poor Self-Paying Students Not Welcome!
University education for overseas students at British universities is expensive. The cost of living in its major cities is high. Now, The British Council and the UK Home Office have just made choosing a British university for self-paying students from developing countries, less attractive. In terms of tuition and cost of living, compared to a country like Canada, one would half their costs and obtain comparable or even more superior, world-class degree from a Canadian University, than from Britain. Unless one is on a government, state, Commonwealth and other scholarships, a British university may just cost you an arm and a leg for no good reason than vanity. If value for money and thrift are any part of the bargain, the arguments for a self-sponsored student from a developing country going to study in the UK, is marginal, barring that the programme they will undertake is unavailable in Canada. According to The Times Higher Education World Ranking of 200 universities in 2008, British Un...