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The universities of uncertainty about The Number of students during the Corona-Virus-outbreak

universities in the UK are demanding an emergency Fund of at least £2bn, Warning some institutions go bankrupt without it.

universities in the UK, says the Corona-Virus-pandemic is threatening to pay to greatly curtail overseas student and you put the universities in financial danger.

you ask, for the control of The Number of students in the respective University, the Income to a similar level as Last Year .

universities, promising all of the offers already made to students are to honor.

"Without the support of the government, some universities with financial failure, others would come close to financial mistakes and are forced to reduce provision," says a letter from Higher Education leaders, Ministers in the UK.

Alistair Jarvis, chief executive of Universities Uk , said that the proposals would be the universities, "the weather is a very serious financial challenges, the Covid-19".

He says, that academic researchers have a "major contribution" to addressing the Corona-Virus-pandemic - and their expertise will be needed in the "recovery of the economy and of the communities after The Crisis ".

call for an additional £2 billion in research funding, and on top of that, the emergency loan for universities, where the "significant losses".

"Targeted support" available leader should be to protect strategically important subjects such as science and medicine, we say to the industry.

This is in response to Bar of pressure from the pandemic:

There were warnings never "volatility" in this year, the visit - which, if left unchecked, could see that some universities are expanding, but others are left with too few students to be financially feasible.

This is a special danger for the universities in England and Wales, which are heavily dependent on tuition Income .

universities are calling for the controls on The Number of students each institution can recruit in this year

In response, Universities Uk is asking for the controls on The Number of students per Higher Education institution in England and Wales can be set, in this year, keep you expect the levels to stop before the Corona-Virus outbreak is not financially sustainable, fluctuations in the numbers.

the extent of the concern, it was proposed, in an internal E-Mail from a Russell Group University is seen, the warned by The Bbc This Week that the University could be a quarter of their Income to lose in the next year.

The Letter from universities in the UK, the Minister says that "stability" for students to be the currently in the application, all the offers that have already been made, honored, if students have the required degree.

It also has a reputation of pushing back by a year The Point at which the European Union is the students are categorized as foreign students, if you with higher fees and visa restrictions.

Jo Grady of the UCU lecturers' union said The Plan was a "piece of work, which do not recognize the size of The Problem , or the damage we risk doing to our academic capacity".

Eva Crossan Jory, Vice-President of the National Union of Students, said additional funding needs to support the students, "especially because of increasing dissatisfaction, the courses are not delivered as promised, and claims for refunds".

she backed up calls on the government to "step" for the protection of Higher Education , but said it should be "the refund or all or part of the fees".

"the scale of the financial challenges that the universities are clearly very serious," said Scotland's Deputy First Minister John Swinney .

He promised to work closely with the universities to work together to help them "emerge from The Crisis ".

A Welsh Government spokesman said the universities would be working "on the Front line in the fight against the coronavirus" and the Minister, to ensure that they have the "necessary investments".

In England, a Department For Education spokeswoman said: "The outbreak poses significant challenges for the industry and the government is working closely with the universities to understand the financial risks and impacts could be you in this uncertain Time . "

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Source of news: bbc.com