A British Students Rationale Towards Chinese Student Immigration/Blog

There's too many Chinese students-Blog Comment

Before branding me as racist, hear me out. I know that there's been a huge increase in the number of Chinese students arriving in the UK to study, whether that be in school or Uni, in recent years. And I get that institutions are eager for them to come as they are cash cows, but is it really helping the UK as a whole/us students? I don't think it does; it only really benefits the Uni's/schools who accept them and even then it might not (see point 4).

1. It raises social barriers because the majority do not want to integrate with British or even other international students. My brother is in boarding school and in that school 30%+ of the school body are Chinese pupils. As a result sports teams have gone down the drain as they don't know how to play rugby or cricket and unwilling to learn, they sit on their own massive table in the dining hall and to those who have to live on a floor where the majority of pupils are Chinese it can be very lonely. They really make no effort to engage in conversation with other students or include others in their doings. 

2. They pay extortionate fees which may well drive local fees higher. In boarding schools this is currently the case and if it weren't for the £9000 a year cap for Uni's a similar situation to America may well come about, where fees are now astronomical.

3. Most go back to China. They don't apply what they've learnt or the skills they've gained to any meaningful employment in the UK. Instead they help further their own country using a UK degree. 

4. Cheating is rife in China which means that many Chinese students might not be here on their own merit anyway. Completely anecdotal evidence yet again, but I've had a number of Chinese students in tutorials when I was in Uni and the vast majority couldn't speak or write English to an adequate level. It not only made me sorry for the people who had to work with them, but it made me wonder how they even got onto the course and whether they were failing or not.