English universities offer to curb foreign students if they can raise tuition fees

Vice-chancellors to ask ministers to stabilise visa regime and allow them to address the sector’s financial crisis

Universities will offer to curb the rise in overseas students in return for greater stability and the chance to increase tuition fees, as part of a plea for the government to ease the sector’s growing financial crisis.

A “blueprint” to be published by vice-chancellors will call for tuition fees in England to rise in line with inflation and for greater government financial support.

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