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...

英國政府准備每年最多花4.5億英鎊補貼歐盟學生學費，但把這一讓步與歐盟允許英國加入“歐洲制造”產業計划掛鈎。雙方在11月峰會前仍就學費和產業准入兩個問題僵持，其余領域已接近達成協議。