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Though UK universities lean too heavily on overseas fees, taxing those fees is worse than a Trump-style tariff because it taxes a major export business for exporting.

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tariffs Taxes on imports: whether they close a trade deficit, what they do to prices, and what they are really for.

education How children are taught and tested: schools, tutoring, what a lesson at the right level does, and what AI changes.

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  1. David Adger Scottish linguist; professor of linguistics at Queen Mary…
    I'm not someone who's comfortable with having the higher education sector rely on overseas fees in the way it does, but this is even more stupid than a Trump style tariff as it actually taxes one of the country's major export businesses for, erm, exporting.

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