A review has found “no concerns” that universities are watering down entry requirements for international students applying to foundation courses.
It follows accusations that universities had been lowering standards to recruit overseas students, who pay higher fees.
The review said entry requirements were broadly the same for international students and UK students on equivalent courses.
However, it found those from overseas had more opportunities to resit exams than A-level students.
Universities UK, which represents 142 institutions, commissioned the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) to carry out the review in February.
QAA assessed programmes at 34 universities that volunteered to take part.
It said it had “no concerns that providers were not following their published entry requirements”, and that those for international programmes were similar to equivalent courses for UK students.
QAA said that in the “vast majority of…
