JUST 40 students have enrolled at Aberystwyth University’s campus on the paradise island of Mauritius in its first two terms, the institution has confirmed.

The university, which refused to answer questions on student numbers upon the campus’s opening last October when only six students turned up for the official opening, has now said that 40 students signed up for courses in the original intake in October last year and the latest intake in March this year.

Despite spending more than £500,000 on staff to teach at the campus, the building is just two per cent full.

The campus is built to accommodate 2,000 students.

The university said it was “a level of recruitment that compares more than favourably to the early phases of other international branch campuses”.

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