Madhumita Laddha 
Illustration & Visual Design


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This work was produced mocking the increasingly flawed education system in the United Kingdom. With the backdrop of the UK's rising inflation and fee freeze on domestic students, universities are relying increasingly heavily on international students to sustain themselves.

Once heralded as world-class,the UK’s education system is on a slow but steady path of decline due to current unsustainable patterns of funding, stifling innovation and an unfavorable student-tutor ratio among many other factors.
As for international students, they are often at the losing end of the bargain. According to an article in The Telegraph, “Universities have been accused by ministers of running ‘threadbare’ courses in an attempt to ‘get bums on seats”. These courses are also heavily marketed to prospective international students, making promises of grandeur that are, more often than not, unfulfilled.

The current state of the system does not always justify the high cost paid, scarce job prospects and subsequent burden of debt shouldered by international students, who then also land at Heathrow with fresh-faced optimism, just to find their professors on strike for one reason or another. So where is all that money going? And the ironic cherry on top of the paradoxical cake? These students must cough up visa fees that are skyrocketing each year for the opportunity to stay back and bleed more of their own cash after their courses.
All this, just for an attempt at finding opportunity akin to a microscopic needle in one of the world’s largest haystacks - unknowingly marketing that very haystack to those still in the dark.



The Business Of Higher Education