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Now that the United Kingdom has officially been out of the European Union for well over two years, many people, particularly the younger generation, have been seriously considering their position on this tiny sceptred isle, and have started to look further afield as the once abundant amount of opportunities dries up in front of our very eyes.
The Brexit effect is easy to see in UK universities. A continuing failure to agree UK association with the Horizon Europe research programme has put eligibility to conduct EU-funded research in the UK in a precarious position, undermining international collaborations and prompting some academics to relocate to the mainland.
Curators who left the UK after the referendum took with them experience that is reshaping their cities’ art scenes.
UKHospitality estimates that shortages are suppressing economic activity in hospitality alone by £22bn - with the pandemic hangover and Brexit adding to an existing problem of finding skilled - and even unskilled - staff.
At least 16 recipients of prestigious ERC grants making plans to reject UK offer and move their labs abroad.
Mick Jagger says Brexit ‘has not been a success’ for UK touring industry: ‘It’s a nightmare’
22/05/2022
‘We’ve isolated ourselves, and that sounds good to some, but it’s an ideology more than a practicality,’ musician said.
Nicholas Walton gives up leadership of €2.8m pan-European research after dispute over Northern Ireland protocol.
Our politicians won’t mention the B-word – but Brexit has made Britain’s economic crisis worse
17/05/2022
Our silence over the issue is compounding the problem.
Developers and publishers discuss the challenges they face in securing talent from the Continent
Brexit Opportunities Abound – Part 2
17/02/2022
Continuing the letter to Jacob Rees-Mogg, reminding him – he seems to need reminding – of the many new opportunities created by Brexit.
Dentists say staff have returned to their home countries in Europe after Brexit, and there are delays in bringing in new dentists from overseas.
The UK suffered an outflow of nearly 1,300 scientists in 2020, having been a net importer of academics in 2015, the year before the Brexit vote to leave the EU, OECD data shows.
They miss the trees, the curry, the friends … but most of all, they miss feeling the UK was somewhere they could call home.
A London headteacher has blamed Brexit after her primary school was forced to close because it lost half of its pupils.
EU citizens who abandoned Britain after Brexit tell us their motives for leaving.
Fast-forward nine years of dedication to his academic involvement in the UK, the university reader, a top rank in Britain’s academic system, felt the EU referendum announcement in 2016 was “an incredible regression in British political and cultural life”.
Shortages in the labour market, along with the vacancies in the health service, hospitality industry and agriculture, are the living evidence of this self-inflicted act
Health minister can’t answer how many NHS staff have left because of Brexit in excruciating interview
05/01/2022
A government minister was unable to answer how many NHS staff have left the country due to Brexit in an embarassing interview on Wednesday morning.
Dentists near me: Lack of dentists in Barnsley partially down to Covid-19 pandemic and Brexit
01/12/2021
“We’ve also lost all the EU dentists with Brexit, and that’s made a big difference,” said Ms Naylor.
Sebastian Przetakowski, who has worked in the industry in the UK for almost two decades, said he is currently fully booked up until next year and has to turn down work because he can no longer find bricklayers and carpenters.
We don't want to become a musical Galapagos, with our musicians locked out of the cultural partnership which is so important for creative development."
18/11/2021
"We don't want to become a musical Galapagos, with our musicians locked out of the cultural partnership which is so important for creative development." - @HarrietHarman at today's Westminster Hall debate on visas for musicians touring in the EU.
A Welsh bus company has warned that a dearth of drivers is causing problems for the industry.
My daughter is right: she should raise her children in Germany rather than Boris Johnson’s increasingly debased Britain.
A report from the Royal Bank of Scotland shows a near-record high number of vacancies with plummeting applicants.
Farmers begin culling pigs as Britain’s labour shortage, exacerbated by Brexit, hits food processing plants
04/10/2021
First it was a lack of truck drivers that crippled gas stations. Now Britain is facing a shortage of food processing workers that’s become so severe farmers have started culling 120,000 pigs.