{"id":2331,"date":"2012-10-16T10:12:20","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T09:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/?p=2331"},"modified":"2012-10-16T10:12:20","modified_gmt":"2012-10-16T09:12:20","slug":"substandard-work-from-overseas-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/2012\/10\/16\/substandard-work-from-overseas-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Substandard work from overseas students"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>There are pieces of work here which do not appear to be anywhere near the sort of level that a Masters qualification would require.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Prof Nick Bourne Former law lecturer and ex-leader, Welsh Conservatives<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There was a total of 48,580 overseas undergraduates studying in the UK, which equates to about 11% of the total undergraduate population. However, they generated 32% of universities&#8217; fee income. <\/p>\n<p>Clearly, overseas students are a great source of revenue for universities, but the worry is that the financial gains will out weigh  the need for strict academic  standards. I am not the only one worried about this: informal conversations with people, who shall remain anonymous, also indicate a fear.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>In the news<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> A BBC Wales News investigation has looked into  the anecdotal stories of standards at Welsh universities to find the truth. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dissertations that are badly written will lose some marks but we&#8217;re primarily interested in the analytical content of those dissertations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Prof John Thornton Bangor University Business School<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-wales-19945919\" title=\"BBc News\" target=\"_blank\">BBC Wales News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are pieces of work here which do not appear to be anywhere near the sort of level that a Masters qualification would require. Prof Nick Bourne Former law lecturer and ex-leader, Welsh Conservatives There was a total of 48,580 overseas undergraduates studying in the UK, which equates to about 11% of the total undergraduate &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/2012\/10\/16\/substandard-work-from-overseas-students\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Substandard work from overseas students<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}