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WEEKEND READING: Research may lose money. Cutting it could lose universities even more
UK universities face a £6.18bn research deficit, with only 66.6% of full economic costs recovered. While cutting research may seem an obvious response, analysis of 16 research-intensive universities suggests this could damage international student recruitment. The relationship varies by discipline: in engineering and medicine, research income drives recruitment, while in social sciences, publication quality is the stronger signal — with one REF ranking place associated with roughly £13m in additional annual international fee income.