Universities: a catastrophe waiting to happen

Academics choose their words carefully, so the language used by Northern VCs in their letter to the PM points to a very real crisis. Chris Jackson investigates

Sunak urged to ditch plans for tighter controls on students from abroad
Plea likely to fall on deaf ears now PM is in election mode – with immigration a key battleground
If a big university goes down, it would be one of the biggest corporate bankruptcies in recent British history, warns expert

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