The head of the UK university with the most students from the European Union (EU) has warned that if Britain votes to leave Europe, the country would lose tens of millions of pounds in fees from European students.
Prof Michael Arthur, president of University College London (UCL), which has 4,500 students from the EU, told the Guardian on Friday that his university and other universities will lose a large proportion of EU undergraduates if the UK votes to leave the EU.
“We simply don’t know at this point what Brexit would mean,” said Arthur. “It’s difficult to imagine a government that’s just exited from Europe wishing to continue the loan scheme [for EU students].”
“If we have 2,000 undergraduates that now no longer have access to a loan system in the UK to come here and study, then the choice is either to pay full international fees without a loan scheme or to go to university in their own country,” he stated.
“In many of their own…