Cambridge V-C Sounds a Warning Regarding Cause and Effect. (June 14, 2008)

Alison Richard, the University of Cambridge vice -chancellor, made this point to a UK House of Commons committee recently which reaches further than Great Britain's shoreline:

[Because of] the under funding of our educational activities historically, universities would be tempted to go for volume rather than go for quality. You bring in overseas students at premium fees. They are not necessarily the best students, because the best students will be going to institutions that will give them financial support, and then they do not get the experience that they had anticipated paying those premium fees and you suddenly get into a downward spiral.