Very interesting how this zero-sum approach that we’ve been facing here in the UK is now emerging in the US. Much of what @mayasen.bsky.social says here is relevant for the UK *without student number controls* - no fixed pie here either but that doesn’t stop folks from thinking that there is 🤷🏽♀️
An emerging narrative on the right is that international students take seats away from deserving domestic students - a zero sum thinking about what universities do and their function 1/