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Horizon: UK on brink of rejoining EU’s £84bn scientific research scheme after Brexit departure
09/08/2023
Universities have seen research funds plummet since Britain left Horizon, which offers huge grants to science projects tackling big issues like climate change.
Britain is on the verge of regaining access to the EU-led research budget - so why pretend we can credibly go it alone?
Oxford and Cambridge now receive only £1m from European research programmes between them. Previously, the top UK universities received over £130m a year from European research programmes.
Oxford and Cambridge universities, once given more than £130m a year in total by European research programmes, are now getting £1m annually between them.
Some of the brightest scientific minds are leaving the UK, as they lose access to European funding in the wake of Brexit, SkyNews has found.
At least 16 recipients of prestigious ERC grants making plans to reject UK offer and move their labs abroad.
The number of pupils admitted to Oxford University from EU countries has halved in the past five years, according to the University’s annual admissions report, which also indicated that the decline was expected as a result of Brexit.
Prof Louise Richardson’s jibe linked to minister’s dismissal of experts during Brexit campaign.
Brexit has been blamed for an increasing number of British people emigrating to go live in continental Europe - the vast majority of whom are of working age. / An estimated 84,000 UK citizens emigrated to the EU in 2019, the latest figures show.
Number of Brits moving to the continent has spiked since Brexit.
Anti-Brexit MEP dropped from debate at Oxford after criticising Tory MP Daniel Kawczynski
17/02/2019
A Liberal Democrat MEP claims she was dropped from a Brexit debate organised by students at Oxford after a tweet in which she criticised a Tory MP received “negative attention”.
Brexit is risking student numbers and vital research funding, says head of Oxford University after school is named world’s best
22/09/2016
The institution’s Vice Chancellor says other universities are already trying to poach her academics.
What do the experts say about Brexit? How would Britain's place in the world change if we voted to leave Europe? Here's independent Oxford University economist Professor Sir Paul Collier from the Blavatnik School of Government talking about the risks of Brexit.