A number of UK Business Schools have signed up to the UN Principles of Responsible Management Education (PRME) and, no doubt were sincere in progressing towards ethical dealings with their students, their partners and in providing opportunities to explore ethical issues as part of teaching. In particular, if the "six principles" of PRME are not explicit enough, the signatories also sign up to the following:
"We understand that our own organisational practices should serve as example of the values and attitudes we convey to our students."
So, look at similar postgraduate degrees in Accounting / Finance / Marketing or Management in different PRME members (I won't name the ones I have looked at) and wonder why tuition fees for non-EU students are higher (often double) than those for domestic and EU students.
For some PRME signatories the fees are the same (at the higher non-EU level) whilst others retain an historic distinction between domestic and EU and International students - despite the fact that the argument of UK government HE funding for domestic and EU students has long since evaporated.
I simply ask - is that ethical?
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