> From the 2021/22 academic year, EU nationals became subject to the same rules as non-EU citizens. Those include needing to apply for a study visa and pay higher international student tuition fees, without entitlement to government-subsidised loans.
This is key because with Brexit, and the UK leaving Erasmus as well, EU students are indeed charged much higher tuition fees than UK students. Tuition fees are alreay high in England for British students, but for internationa students it can be £30k+ a year...
"The number of UK students moving abroad for the whole of a degree did not change in the same way – remaining relatively stable over the past decade. This is perhaps unsurprising given that very few UK students study abroad for the entirety of a degree anyway (particularly in Europe), and those that do so are unlikely to have been severely disadvantaged by the financial changes wrought by Brexit: although they now have to pay ‘international’ fees in Europe, these are typically less than the ‘home’ fees they would have paid in the UK." [1]
There is also the issue of speaking a foreign language well enough to follow an university course as they are usually taught in the local language. Same goes for work.
Anecdotally, English is the only foreign language I know well enough to communicate fluently. Suppose I received a job offer from Germany and decided to migrate. Should I start learning German along with learning at a new job and other obligations, keeping in mind I will probably switch jobs again in a few years? What's next - French or Italian?
Language should serve the people, not the other way around.
