UK COSA

UKCOSA supports staff who work with international students in universities, colleges and schools.

UKCOSA’s Mission

UKCOSA was established in the late 1960s after the introduction of differential fees for overseas students in 1967. In the words of Professor Peter Scott, Chair of the Executive Committee of UKCOSA, it was founded “because of the introduction of two-tier tuition fees threatened to turn international students into a commodity. There was therefore an urgent need to re-assert their fellow importance, and value, as people - fellow citizens of the world and partners in learning, scholarship and research”.
UKCOSA’s mission stems from its belief in the benefits that result from international student mobility. In this belief, it promotes and seeks to protect:

•The interests of students from other countries studying in the UK;
•The interests of students from the UK studying - or wishing to study - abroad;
•The factors facilitating student mobility.

In pursuing theses goals UKCOSA will act a resource centre, an agent of research and policy department, and a forum for its members and others!