Get out and we'll be quids in: Departure would allow UK to charge EU students more, experts argue

By David Matthews. Students from the European Union in the UK are currently on an equal financial footing with their domestic counterparts: they are charged the same tuition fees and can access student loans.
All this would (probably) change if the UK decided to cut its ties with Brussels. EU students could be charged the higher fees faced by their international peers, in theory bringing a windfall for UK universities.
Writing in Times Higher Education this week, Alison Wolf, director of the new International Centre for University Policy Research at King's College London, says that some university finance directors would be "grinning widely" at the prospect of leaving the EU.
"If we left ... we could charge these students more money," she writes.
But if fees went up, would as many continue to come? Read more...