Recruiting Students Overseas to Fill Seats, Not to Meet Standards - The New York Times
''There are some incentives for not delivering complete clunkers, but the underlying motivation for both the university and the agent is to get warm bodies in the door,' said Philip G. Altbach, the founding director of the Center for International Higher Education at Boston College."
There’s something deeply disturbing about this story describing how American universities pay finders fees and offer scholarships and remedial classes to foreign students in an attempt to fill seats. They can’t find anybody at home to help?
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