lastkingsman:


Connection and network. Getting finance job here requires solid reference and the ranking of university attended.

Besides, degree cert is enough for those types of jobs. Also, age is a factor.

AmazingGenius:


Universities to stop some courses

In the bid to discontinue some courses, humanities subjects and languages are bearing the weight of the losses.

The University of Kent has just disclosed plans to discontinue nine courses, including philosophy, contemporary languages, and comparative literature, while Aberdeen is scrapping single honors language degrees, and Winchester is discontinuing numerous humanities courses.

Oxford Brookes is dropping music and reducing its history department, while several other universities are planning unspecified cost cuts.

Impact of foreign students from Nigeria
Northumbria University, Newcastle is among those to have cited economic turmoil in Nigeria, whose currency has collapsed against the pound, for the need to make cuts in the face of a “very sudden reduction of the number of students” coming from the country. 

A spokesman for Northumbria University said, “The university’s financial position was very strong but the current financial outlook is weaker than anticipated.”

“This is a consequence of a combination of fixed home undergraduate fees, difficulties around recruitment of international students, and the ongoing impact of inflation.”

Corroborating the submission, Rachel Hewitt, chief executive of MillionPlus, the group for newer universities, said, “The economic crisis in Nigeria presents difficulties for any university seeking to recruit from that country.

"The existing tuition fee model coupled with high inflation has seen their income fall year on year, meaning institutions have to make difficult choices and do more with less.”

According to the report from The Times, she also blamed ministers, saying, “It is impossible to imagine the government going out of its way to make Britain less inviting to investment in almost any other sector and yet every negative headline and policy reform that makes Britain less attractive to international students damages both the higher education sector and UK plc.”

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2024/03/japa-uk-universities-battle-financial-shortage-as-foreign-students-from-nigeria-india-reduce/

004gist:
Almost all schools in the United kingdom are facing serious financial problems.
My school is not exempted as lecturers want to go on strike any moment because the management has closed down a lot of departments and are asking the lecturers to go..Lecturers said no u can't just sack them.

Other universities are going into merger to pass through the storm.

Nigeria and Indians plays a critical role in the funding of UK universities. It was when I arrived that I started seeing sizeable number of Nigerians studying BSc program.

This universities are crafty as they open irrelevant department.. Project management this, project executive this that, project sustainability this that and that etc
Even if u graduate they won't even give u job unless the menial jobs around.


Our leaders has to sit up, create hope for Nigerians by providing security, transparency in elections etc , so that people don't exit this country.

004gist:


Three things at play


The dependancy issue.
Exchange rate issue
Job issue

Mindlog:


Comparing the two, I enjoyed the teaching skills of my lecturers here in the UK as they made learning enjoyable.

Bongadu:



It's not too late, you can still do it bobo

Bongadu:



It's not too late, you can still do it bobo

armadeo:


The problem is ease of doing business.

They'll kill that your 20 million in your front. Do you know how many small medium businesses have collapsed in the last year.

There's a fear of doing business here. Also not everyone is business inclined

Mindlog:


I won't discount God's grace and favour but many who came over, didn't research well before the leap.

Majority of Nigerians students clearly proved they just joined into the bandwagon, many said the agents who helps in processing their admission and visas chose University and courses for them!

You come over to do the UK to do a Masters in Business Administration, abeg which UK company are you expecting to hire you and sponsor your 5 years skilled worker visa?

I told someone who wanted to come to the UK for his studies, he said it is Msc Finance and I advised him that chances of getting a sponsored job in that field is very slim, gave him alternatives that are more realistic but the guy ghosted me and in his mind I was an "enemy of progress". He came over for his dream course: Msc Finance, graduated and presently in his second year of the 2 years post study work visa working in a warehouse through an agency earning £11.47 per hour before deductions.

Mindlog:


I won't discount God's grace and favour but many who came over, didn't research well before the leap.

I told someone who wanted to come to the UK for his studies, he said it is Msc Finance and I advised him that chances of getting a sponsored job in that field is very slim, gave him alternatives that are more realistic but the guy ghosted me and in his mind I was an "enemy of progress". He came over for his dream course: Msc Finance, graduated and presently in his second year of the 2 years post study work visa working in a warehouse through an agency earning £11.47 per hour before deductions.

tensazangetsu20:


Na wa o. I thought london was one the top global financial centers. Why is it then hard to get a job in finance?

justmondris:
A few years from now, most foreign students will start attending universities in China for the same quality of education at a very low price.

Gboyeee:
Let not deceive ourselves, this universities can survive without immigrants money. You know how much these countries give in aids every year, go check their defense and other budgets.The universities is open to bringing in more funding from international students. The universities can do fine. Let stop feeling important and build our country.

Ilekokonit:


Selice-stations-put-on-hold-b1144734.html

A few hours ago, I saw 2 Oyinbo middle aged men approach our bulding and knowing it is election time soon, I thought they were Conservative Party vote canvassers and I went out to meet them but the one who stopped at our building and dropped Labour Party campaign leaflets through the letter box of every flat including mine turned out to be Labour party officials and I told him that I thought they were from the Conservative party and if so I had meant to tell them that I would NOT be voting for the Conservative party because of the divisive politics of Suella Braverman.

He agreed that Suella was a divisive figure before he left but from the tone of his voice, his body language and his wanting to leave in a hurry, I could sense that he is one of these stiff upper lipped white aristocrats who a) is wary around black people and b) thought they were better than anyone else talk less of black people and although he is from the Labour party, I made up my mind NOT to vote Labour as I originally intended but to vote for the Workers party founded by George Galloway since those ones SEEM more tolerant of the grass roots and George Galloway himself is closer to ethnic minorities than the Conservative and Labour parties.

In the UK and America there is a phenomenon called "White flight or white exodus" whereby white people start moving away en-masse from any areas where ethnic minorities have started moving into. Its very common in London and I first noticed it in the SW16 area of London many years ago when the Somalians first started moving into that area of London after the UK granted a lot of them Asylum during the Somalian civil war.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_flight

Gerrard59:


That is not true. These universities depend on immigrants to fund themselves. The British government has constantly cut funding for higher education leaving universities to charge foreigners very high rates compared to citizens. The government has also placed a cap on tuition fees for British citizens. So, to support themselves, the universities have to focus on recruiting foreigners and charging them excessively. The top universities charge more than thrice the rate for international students compared to citizens. These schools target wealthy and middle class households in Asia. The lowly ranked universities (who are the most affected) focus on developing countries such as Pakistan, India and Nigeria.

With the current immigration rules, these lowly ranked universities are forced to cut down on departments, employees and if continued would have to close entirely or merge with other struggling universities. For instance, at Imperial College London, the majority of international students are Chinese, and they dominate the engineering and sciences departments. In LSE or Cambridge for social sciences, the majority also come from Asia - Singapore, Japan, Malaysia, Vietnam and the oga kpata kpata China. Their parents pay a shitload of money to sponsor them to those universities.

nearline:


Gboyeee is absolutely right. Yes. This is the UK we are talking about but they too have loads of misplaced priorities like the military budget and aids money he mentioned. University aside, there is a wave of serious poverty in the UK in general right now and this has nothing to do with their universities. The fact is that not everything that brings in profit must be globalised or should I say not everything that brings in profit must depend majorly, or worse, solely on a globalised market to make money. Not especially education. Globalised commodity trade is unasses are suffering some (including a lot of native white british people) are actually homeless and jobless. They can find a solution to their low university funding challenges without depending on foreign money if they want to.

Gerrard59:


The logic does not follow. If he is right, why are the universities lamenting decreased revenues and are on the brink of financial collapse? Aids money has been cut ever since Theresa May. Defence funding has been increased because of the Ukrainian issue. However, past Conservative administrations have cut down on funding for higher education while imposing a cap on tuition rates for citizens. The universities have to find an alternative. Yes, it has been abused as a leeway to settle in the UK. Maybe White British should come to terms of what their country is and its future. Politicians are only responding to what the electorate wants them to do.

Gerrard59:


Which school did he attend for his MSc in Finance?

Mindlog:

University of Huddersfield.

Ilekokonit:


Serves the UK right. When the former Home Secretary Suella Braverman was villifying immigrants and even moved some asylum seekers onto a floating boat prison even when the fire brigade said it was a fire hazard and she did not even wait for the result of the tests on the water supply on the boat to come back before rushing to move the immigrants onto the boat. The water supply later turned out to be dangerous to humans before she now moved them off the boat.

Suella Braverman (and Rishi Sunak who looked the other way for selfish political reasons) for the past 2 years has been CONSTANTLY castigating and vilifying UK immigrants in the hope that the conservative party will win the next election if they apply to the inherently racist tendencies of EVERY white UK citizen and then Suella can after the elections topple Rishi as PM since she is now loved by the majority of the electorate who are white and want to blame all their woes on immigrants.

The main thing in the UK right now is a desperate Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and his increasingly right wing (racist) conservative party trying to blame every problem in the UK on refugees and migrants just so they can tap into the inherently racist Oyinbo majority's sentiment and win this years election in which they are forecast to be wiped out.

The oyinbo politicians who will be called out as racist if they said the same thing Suella Braverman has said about foreigners and immigrants in the past 2 years are playing a dangerous game of outsourcing their racist ideas into the mouth of Suella Braverman a former Home Secretary and Attorney General of the UK in the hope that no one can call her out as racist because she is of indian heritage herself and Suella is basking in that opportunity and I can bet that she will win her seat in the elections and if Rishi loses the election for the conservatives, Suella will be made the Tory party leader because most white people like her racist rhetoric because she can say what they have always wanted to say about immigrants without her being called racist since she is brown skinned.

Until the UK realises that immigrants are not the cause of all their problems, I have no mercy for them.
Joe
I have no pity if the UK economy tanks as it currently doing and i was not really shocked when the London metropolitan Police announced a few days ago that 60 Murder Detectives were going to lose their jobs as a cost cutting measure to plug holes in their finances as they have spent all their reserves propping up their expenses and now their annual funding from the Govt is not enough to pay wages for all their police staff. This is serious if UK police is sacking experienced Murder detectives to save money.

I also just read that some London police stations are being sold off to save money.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/03/15/met-police-murder-detectives-neil-cochin-homicide-budget/
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/plans-to-sell-london-police-stations-put-on-hold-b1144734.html

A few hours ago, I saw 2 Oyinbo middle aged men approach our bulding and knowing it is election time soon, I thought they were Conservative Party vote canvassers and I went out to meet them but the one who stopped at our building and dropped Labour Party campaign leaflets through the letter box of every flat including mine turned out to be Labour party officials and I told him that I thought they were from the Conservative party and if so I had meant to tell them that I would NOT be voting for the Conservative party because of the divisive politics of Suella Braverman.

He agreed that Suella was a divisive figure before he left but from the tone of his voice, his body language and his wanting to leave in a hurry, I could sense that he is one of these stiff upper lipped white aristocrats who a) is wary around black people and b) thought they were better than anyone else talk less of black people and although he is from the Labour party, I made up my mind NOT to vote Labour as I originally intended but to vote for the Workers party founded by George Galloway since those ones SEEM more tolerant of the grass roots and George Galloway himself is closer to ethnic minorities than the Conservative and Labour parties.

In the UK and America there is a phenomenon called "White flight or white exodus" whereby white people start moving away en-masse from any areas where ethnic minorities have started moving into. Its very common in London and I first noticed it in the SW16 area of London many years ago when the Somalians first started moving into that area of London after the UK granted a lot of them Asylum during the Somalian civil war.

A former white colleague in the NHS tried to justify "white flight" and he was quite condescending towards black people by saying he has daily arguments online with black people where he tries to tell them that white people are better than black people. I just simply told the then 25 year old "boy" to mind his utterances and not carry the same mindset to America where he was due to relocate to 'cos the African Americans will not tolerate such statements from him.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_flight

Gerrard59:


Bwhahahahahahahhahahahahhahhahahhahahhahahahahha Na MSc Finance from Huddersfield him wan use work for City of London?

I would rather be an illiterate than spend a kobo of my parents' money attending such an institution. If it is not Imperial College London, London School of Economics, Oxbridge or any of KCL or UCL (these days, both ciome across as pure water universities), I no do. I am a black immigrant, so I am not fazed by St Andrews or Durham or Exeter, although those are good schools.

Better Covenant or Baze, be a good boy and marry the daughter of a rich man.

Gerrard59:


Guy,

As much London is a top financial centre, those jobs are extremely selective and meant for the best and brightest, plus children of mom and dad's friends. In this current economic and immigration climate, anyone who wishes to work in the City or Canary Wharf MUST study at a top ten or, I dare say, top five universities in the UK. This applies to MBA as well. People get jobs right after their MBAs, including those who even studied at INSEAD or HEC Paris, but as noted, these are top universities.

I have mentioned how top universities affect job applications, but was criticised. Na the same thing I tell one Chinese student recently who attends a not too well known university but applies to top Japanese financial companies. Apply to smaller or less known companies, work there for at least three years and apply to the big boys. For entry level, companies are extremely selective because the number of applications is high. They apply several selective requirements, and more so for immigrants.

Finance on its own is an elitist industry even in Nigeria. The top universities or nothing. For the UK, this means LSE, Imperial College, Oxbridge, Exeter, Durham, Warwick, Nottingham, London Business School and the likes. In Nigeria, first and second generation federal universities alongside top private universities.

lastkingsman:


Na so the matter be. To even get admission in those schools you mentioned with your money na wahala.

I have a friend that did masters at LBS. They took him then because of diversity and na him be the only black for their set.

He's with a top consulting firm in US now. Started with their branch in UK, was later transferred.

Konquest:
Police layoffs?... Now this is getting serious.
As the population increases in the UK with a gradual spike in crimes, more of such crack teams of specialist Police officers would be needed... And Police stations are also planned to be sold off to save money.
=>https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/03/15/met-police-murder-detectives-neil-cochin-homicide-budget/
=>https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/plans-to-sell-london-police-stations-put-on-hold-b1144734.html

Cc: Sukkot

Konquest:
Police layoffs?... Now this is getting serious.
As the population increases in the UK with a gradual spike in crimes, more of such crack teams of specialist Police officers would be needed... And Police stations are also planned to be sold off to save money.

=>https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/03/15/met-police-murder-detectives-neil-cochin-homicide-budget/

=>https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/plans-to-sell-london-police-stations-put-on-hold-b1144734.html


Cc: Sukkot

AmazingGenius:

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2024/03/japa-uk-universities-battle-financial-shortage-as-foreign-students-from-nigeria-india-reduce/

Mindlog:


While thousands of Chinese students come to the UK for study, every year. They have the highest number of international students in the UK.

Svoboda:


Its india. China is the US.

Mindlog:


It is China. Those Chinese students either come from financially comfortable homes or are on scholarships and very few come with dependants, reason the discontinuation of dependant visas will not negatively affect numbers coming from China.

Mindlog:


It is China. Those Chinese students either come from financially comfortable homes or are on scholarships and very few come with dependants, reason the discontinuation of dependant visas will not negatively affect numbers coming from China.

Afamed:


Speak for yourself

In as much I agree with you, that it is tough in Nigeria to do business, its tougher outside Nigeria to do business