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Foreign Office vetting deterring top scientists from UK, Royal Society warns

The Guardian - Higher Education

The government’s Academic Technology Approval Scheme ( Atas ) is designed to prevent the export of technology with potential military applications and was significantly expanded last year amid a national security crackdown. Continue reading.

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High-achieving Indian alumni honoured in UK

The PIE News

Also speaking this week was Labour’s shadow minister for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Catherine West, who urged more youth from India and the UK to engage in international exchange of education and culture.

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Could the UK Graduate Route be axed?

The PIE News

One thesaurus is not enough to describe the folly of the British government’s policy towards foreign students.” According to Home Office statistics, student visas issued to Indian students fell by 50% in the first year after its removal. “Incoherent. Short-sighted. Cack-handed. Counter-productive.

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Which Whitehall Department should be responsible for English universities? By Dave Phoenix

HEPI

Instead, extending free childcare to encourage parents back to work emerged from the Chancellor’s speech as the Department’s political priority. The Department’s focus is not on how universities could better foster innovation or train the next generation of researchers and academics.

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UK: Lords Committee calls for UK-EU mobility reset

The PIE News

In its new report, The future UK-EU relationship, the committee uses evidence from stakeholders to examine the overarching state of the post-Brexit relationship between the UK and EU, delving into themes including mobility of people and the overall political, diplomatic and institutional relationship between the UK and the EU.

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Can the HE sector just carry on as it is now??

HEPI

Doing them all justice is especially hard given the point we are at in the political cycle: since last Tuesday , the next general election must be less than two years away. Today’s HEPI blog is the text of a speech by Nick Hillman, Director of HEPI, to a joint meeting of the Senate and Council at Lancaster University.

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