Postgraduate numbers plummet amid fears for no-deal Brexit

On reading the article, I thought that the word "plummet" is misleading. There's part of me that wants to crash out of the EU without a deal to see whether the doomsayers are correct!

Brexit is bad news, but if the THE as the leading news source for UK HE thinks that a drop of “5 per cent in 2018-19 compared to 2017-18. That compares with a 4 per cent rise in enrolments on postgraduate taught courses in 2017-18” (i.e. the 2018-19 figure is 1% below the figure for 2016-17, with undergraduate recruitment still rising, although at a reduced rate) is “plummeting” then it goes some way to help to explain why the leave campaign successfully persuaded many leave voters to ignore “experts”. Report the data accurately and avoid misleading tabloid style headlines if you want to retain any credibility in the debates still to come.

So nothing to do with the prices being charged for postgraduate courses then?

With the new Postgraduate loans available, it is saddening but not surprising that this is the case. Any feedback on universities outside of the Russel Group would be helpful.