As UK Universities Run Deficits Over Immigration Laws, We Must Learn Not To Abuse Positioning

In the Igbo Nation, it is always a great honour when you call your kinsmen and they gather to listen to you. The UK was a center of gravity in Europe, but it did not see it as an honour. It went to dismantle what made the UK amazing, via BREXIT, etc. Today, even its universities are paying the prices as inflation rises and poverty scales in the land.  After BREXIT, I wrote that it was a huge irony that the “Great Britain which used to annihilate kingdoms and colonized them” would like to be left alone, peacefully! Unfortunately, that would weaken the UK because it did not know the power of its strength. 

Fixing the paralysis of the UK has moved immigration to new dimensions: “Universities across England are grappling with a funding crisis orchestrated by a sharp decline in student applications, a trend believed to have been birthed by the UK’s new immigration laws…The OfS report, seen by the Financial Times, reveals that 40% of England’s universities are expected to run deficits in the 2023-24 academic year, with many institutions facing low cash flows.” Some of these new immigration laws would not have been necessary without BREXIT.

Good People, in this world, most times, we do not understand the privileges we have. That was what happened to Nigeria. One afternoon, some people closed all land borders in Southern Nigeria, distorting decades-old trade routes between Nigeria and its neighbours. By the time we woke up, from scoring those mindless economic own-goals, those countries had moved on. Till today, Nigeria has not recovered because those countries have established new trade routes. Check the data, our economy and Naira  took the worst turns, post border closure.  

The Main Market in Onitsha, Nigeria is the largest market in Africa by volume of goods and geographical size. It serves Niger, Benin Republic and other countries. Those customers come with USD dollars. But because Nigeria did not model the impact, we stopped them, and lost the inflow. When they left, Naira was impacted.

The Main Market in Onitsha, Nigeria is the largest market in Africa by volume of goods and geographical size. It serves Niger, Benin Republic and other countries. The foreign customers always come with USD dollars. But when we  closed the land borders, we stopped them, and lost the inflow. When they left, Naira was impacted.

If the UK cannot fund KNOWLEDGE of the future, it will fade over years. And by now, it is self-evident that BREXIT was an own goal.  Of course, they will reverse some of the unaligned immigration laws as they govern with data, knowing what works and does not work.

My Response on Impact of Brexit on this

“As of February 2024, the UK’s GDP per capita has only increased 4% since the 2016 Brexit vote, which is significantly lower than the 8% increase in the Eurozone and 15% growth in the U.S.. The NIESR estimates that Brexit’s negative impact will increase gradually, reaching about £2,300 per capita by 2035”.

I did not write this decline is due to BREXIT but I posit that without BREXIT, the UK will not have this new immigration policy which is affecting enrollment.  You need to acknowledge my inferences; BREXIT did not affect students enrollment directly, but BREXIT triggered many things like lower standard of living, inflation, etc which make the UK seem poorer, pushing for these changes like immigration. 

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