I don't know where some people have heard that IMU is stopping PMS pathway, but I can tell you that this is definitely not true. This is one of the most deciding factor why many students choose to do medicine in IMU. This credit transfer provides a backdoor into the unis. Stopping PMS = Less Students = Less Money for IMU. (Although, the number of students and fees have been increasing steadily throughout the years) Remember, education is a business.

However, regarding PMS universities pulling out is a fact, and is due to a number of reasons: 1. Those universities have filled up their quota for international students. 2. The quality of IMU students who transfer are appalling(seriously, this is a true) 3. A number of PMS uni have change to graduate pathway(esp. Aussie)

For the UK universities, it's usually the 1st reason. There are a huge number of a 'certain type' of students transferring to UK, thus filling up the quota. It's not that they pulled out. They will reappear again in the PMS list, just not for a year(or maybe, two) to balance their local:international student ratio.

Unfortunately, it's a discrete matter but, if you must know. I can only tell you that there is a certain group of sponsored students who are only match to unis in the UK, hence, filling up the space meant for other students.

Every uni has a certain local:international students ratio. Most people just look at the limit of international students numbers for a uni, many don't realise that there is such a ratio between local and international students and as well as, between international students. This is just to satisfy the local students. Well, of course, most unis want higher international student intake, since they pay a higher amount for fees. But (as a local)would you feel happy, if >80% of your class are foreigners.

It was an exaggeration to point out my point. What course or uni would even have >10‰ as you have pointed out. In medicine, a highly competitve course they even try to keep it as low as possible. Nevertheless such a thing exists and have a big impact on the number of international students admitted.

About the credibility, PMS pathway is a backdoor and much easier entrance to unis. Students who opt for it are guaranteed a place, they just need to scrape a minimal pass for their exams. Of course, bear in mind this shouldn't be generalised to all the students.

Common sense? Want to profit? This is business we're talking about. Do you know how many times more are international students paying compared to local students? Do you really think these unis are playing by the rules? Just a quick search on google will report numerous articles of unis bending the admission rules to allow more international students in.

Went they realized that "Oh no, we have admitted too much for the year, what should we do?" They will take up the quota for the following year. At least they have the brains to do that, look at the glut here. And all for what? To balance the student ratios.

Seriously, you can't just google for yourself.
This isn't much of a choice for the PMS uni. There is an understanding between PMS uni and IMU such that the PMS uni will reserve a certain number of places for IMU students unless there are certain reason/s that they couldn't afford to.

PMS uni sometimes are taken off from the PMS list for certain batches. Most often the reason is no placing. The reason behind is up to your own imagination. Once they resolve their 'placing' problem, they#ll reappear in the list.



This post has been edited by Blue2u: Feb 26 2014, 04:00 PM

Yeah, I'm struggling to get you to see my point of view.