If the UK were to experience a downward turn in foreign enrollments, lower than expected income from oversees fees could exert additional financial pressures on institutions already attempting to cope from significant decreases in public funding and move to a model more reliant on tuition revenues than previously.
All those pressures mean more foreign companies may move to reduce exposure to the country, and potentially other nations seen as alternatives to China.
Cost pressures, namely competition from cheaper foreign fertilizer, caused other domestic plants to fold, many in the wake of the natural gas price spike after Hurricane Katrina in 2005.