UK willing to spend £450m a year on EU students if it can join Made in Europe scheme

Exclusive: Plan to allow students from bloc pay same fees as Britons contingent on entry to industrial programme, officials say Ministers are prepared to spend as much as £450m a year to give students from the EU discounted university fees, the Guardian has learned, but only if Brussels allows the UK access to its Made in Europe industrial programme. The UK government has drawn up plans to allow students arriving from the continent pay the same fees as British students, sources say, and is willing to spend hundreds of millions of pounds compensating universities to do so. Continue reading...

英国政府准备每年最多花4.5亿英镑补贴欧盟学生学费，但把这一让步与欧盟允许英国加入“欧洲制造”产业计划挂钩。双方在11月峰会前仍就学费和产业准入两个问题僵持，其余领域已接近达成协议。