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Restricting UK student visas could mean large parts of sector becomes “uneconomic”

The PIE News

The UK public’s concern around overall migration levels “appears far more muted” now than compared with the time before the Brexit referendum, a key report into the country’s migration system has suggested. The Immigration after Brexit: Where are we going?

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Internationalisation in the Netherlands: an uncertain, volatile landscape

The PIE News

It has become a reality in the Netherlands that the Party for Freedom (PVV), a right-wing populist political party, has become the biggest winner in the Dutch national elections. Most international students who study in the Netherlands come from the EU.

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Shifts, shocks, fragility: are English universities on a sustainable course? By John Raftery

HEPI

The Brexit referendum result in 2016 followed by the UK’s departure from the EU in January 2020, led to a drastic fall in the number of EU students, a closing of access to appropriately funded EU schemes for research and economic development, and the need to terminate the positions of many staff previously funded through such means.

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Higher Education in Ireland

HESA

We have the highest level of student attainment across Europe and almost third in the EU and the OECD. So, I’ve done some work with the JRC, that’s the Joint Reserve Council for the EU, and looking at smart specialization in VET. We have maybe about 20% in further education and about 13.5% This is pretty idiosyncratic.

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SRHE News at 50: Looking back…

SRHE

In that time Brexit accounted for much political turmoil but ‘got done’, after a fashion. There was much political talk of ‘low quality courses’; the Teaching Excellence Framework rose and fell. Publishing worldwide was roiled by open access initiatives, especially the EU-inspired ‘Plan S’. No 24 The Thirty Years Quality War ).

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The UK University-Territory Relationship in a Post-Brexit World

GlobalHigherEd

Post-EU Referendum turmoil in the UK (and the EU) continues, for all sorts of reasons, but soon more serious and sustained assessment of the post-Brexit landscape for UK universities will occur. EU Membership and UK Science (Science and Technology Committee, House of Lords, 20 April 2016).

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WEEKEND READING: Look Wot You Dun – Higher education in the run up to election ’24

HEPI

Perhaps, seven years on from the Brexit referendum, we will finally find out if the UK is to be in Horizon Europe. Back at the time of the referendum, this was one of the least controversial areas, with both sides in the referendum campaign committed to continuing engagement with EU research programmes.