“British universities are rapidly expanding the recruitment of overseas postgraduates who pay higher fees, but growth in the number of domestic postgraduates is far slower, a study has found. The analysis by the Higher Education Policy Institute and the British Library, published on 21 January, urges the Government to make PhDs more attractive to British students to arrest the erosion of the UK’s research base …” (more)
[John Morgan, Times Higher Education, 21 January]