Funding for academically excellent students from UK to study abroad

[mids2019]

Four out of 10 UK students are being rejected by elite universities mol.im/a/11110105 via dailym.ai/android.

If the above is true in the DM should we consider funding extremely good students squeezed out of Oxbridge to go to US universities?

We have always had a good system where wealth isn't a barrier to university access but increasingly universities are attracting overseas students with their fees but UK students may not have the financial means to reciprocate this arrangement.

Bold fail. You can tell where the A*s start & finish.

Our alumni fundraising gets spent on capital projects and supporting the poorest of our home students!

It's the Dailymail.

They don't need to get figures from anywhere when they can just make them up.

OP, you are Liz Truss and I claim my £5.

I don't understand that article - where are they getting the 60% from? A 60% acceptance rate would be ludicrously high for an elite university - it really wouldn't be an elite university. I attach the figures for Cambridge for 2019 (as pre-pandemic). Acceptance rates vary considerably between courses. For classics, it's a 50% acceptance rate. But in another subject it's 20%. In my view, these are high acceptance rates. The acceptance rate for Chinese applicants to the top Chinese university is 2%. Acceptance rates for the Ivy League universities in the US and for the "Grandes Ecoles" in France are far lower than for Oxford and Cambridge.

Telegraph thinks things are going to be hard this year too www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/08/14/a-level-pupils-should-brace-disappointment-watchdog-warns/ (this year is students with no normal GCSEs and no AS levels, whose A levels were the first public exams they ever did so quite a weird year for all kinds of reasons).

@GCAcademic that's a widely held myth.

Taxation is actually pretty high in the US. Americans pay federal and state income taxes along with county taxes assessed on property, various city taxes and charges (city stickers for cars for instance) as well as annual state car tax, and every single thing you buy in the supermarket and everywhere else is also taxed. My state claps an extra ten percent onto the price of every transaction. Services are also taxed. On top of local/city and county taxes, Americans pay their local municipality for garbage collection and water and sewer provision. Property taxes can be extremely high - there are property owners in my suburbs who are paying $50k in property taxes annually.

The culture of philanthropy in the UK needs to catch up if UK universities are to stay relevant. American universities have huge staffs employed to schmooze money out of the pockets of alums.

This 100%

There is zero chance of a taxpayer funded education in the US for students who don’t secure a place at an elite university in the U.K.

@emma6115 none of that negates the fact that we threw away easy access to study abroad. You sound like a government soundbite.

Have you even read the thread @emma6115 ? Full of on-the-ground advice from UK and US academics ...