Respect for international students means preparing them adequately

Education has become corporatised, as numbers and fees through business accountancy being the prime factors in educative policy. It doesn’t even benefit the failed towns and cities they operate in. Dewey and the great educationalists would turn in their graves. Shame on the collusive actors in this dishonourable practice.

Sadly, this experience is more likely to be the norm than an outlier. Quality control over international recruitment at my own institution has apparently gone out of the window in the relentless pursuit of more international "bums on seats".

Excessive commercialisation is destroying education and will soon destroy the entire academic community. In cases of joint fraud by teaching institutions and students, strong third-party oversight must be introduced. Universities should also scrutinise students' results more closely and sanction certain institutions that cheat. Fraudulent Alevel scores are already heavily proliferated in some areas and certain colleges are letting this go unchecked. This is an injustice to all conscientious educators and students.

The notion that everyone requires a university degree and , exacerbated by poor funding of universities has encouraged lowering grade threshold to increase university admissions for the middle class. University education does not suit everyone. This emerging trend will certainly erode the quality of higher education.