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Brexit Party candidate Mike Greene after a long pause: "I haven't gone into the detail of specific laws."
The number of EU students choosing to study in the UK has dropped by half since Brexit, according to new official figures.
'Less support and fewer opportunities': What the UK’s Erasmus alternative could mean for students
10/03/2021
It was once considered a rite of passage for millions of students who lived, worked, and travelled across Europe - but access to a new British scheme this year hopes to make the Erasmus programme a distant memory.
Letter warns immigration rules may damage UK universities’ ability to attract global talent.
The replacement for the Erasmus scheme has been opened - but critics say it's much less generous than the programme available before Brexit.
In what follows, a group of leading social scientists explore these themes, explaining what has happened in the past, the situation the UK finds itself in now, and the issues that might confront us going forward. The collection is intended as a guide to the big questions confronting the country in the years to come.
Oxford and Cambridge universities, once given more than £130m a year in total by European research programmes, are now getting £1m annually between them.
“Changing data protection law is very central to the government’s post-Brexit policy. We all remember the A-levels fiasco in 2020."
Private equity veteran Guy Hands says Boris Johnson ‘threw the country and the NHS under the bus’.
Brexit uncertainty and migration decisions spark brain drain concerns - University of Oxford
03/08/2020
Brexit has sparked major changes in migration decisions, equivalent to the impact of a serious economic or political crisis, according to a pioneering joint study between the Oxford-in-Berlin research partnership and the WZB Social Sciences Center Berlin.
Officials are scrambling to prevent a repeat of the chaos at Dover and keep passengers moving.
About 1,000 university research jobs are at risk unless the UK government urgently replaces European Union funding, bosses have warned.
Britain loses eTwinning as well as Erasmus+
04/03/2021
Most people have heard of Erasmus+, but very few know why Britain decided not to participate in it after leaving the EU.
“Locality is now becoming a huge factor for employers. It’s easier and cheaper for them to hire workers who are already EU residents; while UK citizens are now competing with a saturated market of teachers from the likes of Canada and Australia.”
As Layla Moran has said, ‘staying in Erasmus should be a no-brainer’ – but the people in charge of our country seem to have no brains
Data on Canadian study permits suggests ‘spike’ in student numbers from some continental nations.
Scottish and Welsh governments seek answers about programme’s future from UK education secretary. / The Scottish and Welsh governments have written to the UK education secretary to raise concerns about the future of the European student exchange programme after Brexit.
Damaging legacy of Brexit - GOV.SCOT
24/06/2021
The harm done to Scotland’s economy, trade, population, education and governance by Brexit is becoming increasingly clear, a new paper finds.
In this week's update from ‘downside bunker’, more evidence emerges that Britain has effectively declared a trade war on itself.
Fears that uncertainty over Brexit will hit language learning after 25% drop in applications from EU citizens.
Teacher Sarah Lepioufle, accompanying her college’s Edinburgh trip, said the changes introduced since Brexit — the extra paperwork involved — had made applying for courses an “obstacle course”.
The shock announcement at the end of 2020 that the UK will be leaving the Erasmus+ Programme sparked disbelief and disappointment on both sides of the Channel.
The loss of the scheme would be a devastating blow for the social mobility of students from disadvantaged backgrounds.
The European Parliament has commissioned dozens of impact assessments or studies on Brexit from experts, across a broad range of policy areas, which are publicly available online. This webpage will be regularly updated to include further relevant publications.
EU teachers are likely to face fees of £4,345 to work in the UK for five years after Brexit in a move that will worsen an existing recruitment crisis, ministers have been warned.