Universities 'using foreign students as cash cows'

By Graeme Paton, Education Editor. Foreign students with poor qualifications are being used by British universities as “cash cows” to fill holes in the higher education budget, a leading academic has admitted.
 Universities and successive governments have “turned a blind eye” to the recruitment of under-qualified students for years to drive up funding levels, according to Prof Susan Bassnett. The scholar suggested that the abuse of the student visa system witnessed at London Metropolitan University was rife at other institutions across Britain.