Mike Reddin of PublicGoods.co.uk -- a very creative and helpful way that he spends some of his retirement helping the field of international education after years of service at the London School of Economics -- has announced the 2008/9 update to his annual survey of domestic/European Union (EU) and international undergraduate and graduate fees at UK universities and higher education institutions. The survey includes includes fees for visiting (year and semester/term) students as well as those for Foundation Courses.
The database can be downloaded -- a no cost -- from the PublicGoods Eeducation page. It can also now be accessed through the new Good Universities Guide (UK) and, as previous, the Education Guardian.
Databases are also available for past years. Mike's survey is the sole source of such data in the United Kingdom and is a tremendous service to our profession. Thanks, Mike!
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Does it get any better than this? Mike
Mike sent on this update today:
Today’s Education Guardian gave a nice boost to my annual fees survey — although continuing to write it up as a tale of ‘inflated fees’ … which is less than subtle and winds up the nice colleagues who provide the data. You can find the article at:
http://education.guardian.co.uk/students/internationalstudents/page/0,,2281031,00.html
It’s accompanied by an interesting article by Jessica Shepherd analysing our HESA (Higher Education Statistical Agency) data for 2006/7 on international student numbers – i.e. how many come to the UK and which universities they attend:
http://education.guardian.co.uk/students/internationalstudents/story/0,,2280979,00.html
I subsequently posed these questions to Jessica, about the HESA figures – and her responses are interposed with my questions.
1. Do they treat everybody ‘non-British’ as being ‘international’ (i.e. including all of the EU students)? More specifically, can we assume that an ‘international’ student in the HESA data means ‘somebody paying the international fees rate’?
A1 – This was based on domicile. Any student not living in the UK was treated as “non-UK”. It was not measured in terms of whether they paid international fees.
2. Do the numbers cover *all* international students, in any kind of programme – e.g. including undergraduate and graduate degrees, one-year (JYA) visitors, semester visitors, Erasmus, Summer Schools, Foundation Courses?
A2 – All international students were included except for Erasmus, Socrates, Leonardo, Tempus, Lingua and students at UK universities for two weeks or less.