Book launch – Brexit, EU Students and UK higher education: Broken bridges скачать в хорошем качестве

Book launch – Brexit, EU Students and UK higher education: Broken bridges

In the late 2010s the ESRC Centre for Global Higher Education gathered data on the expected effects of Brexit, conducting interviews with academic staff and university leaders in 12 contrasting UK universities. Almost every interviewee expressed concern about the loss of talented EU students and the educational and cultural diversity they provided. Just published by Bloomsbury Academic, Brexit, EU Students and UK Higher Education: Broken Bridges, by Vassiliki Papatsiba and Simon Marginson, reports that research, demonstrating the gaping hole that Brexit has created in British universities. Setting the study data in the context of the internationalisation of higher education in UK, and of the overall effects of Brexit, the book focuses on the impact of the loss of EU students in three domains: student numbers and revenues, the quality and diversity of education, and the heightened competition between institutions. At a time when higher education institutions are locked into an existential battle to stay afloat amid the falling value of domestic fees and the ceiling on international student numbers, Brexit, EU Students and UK Higher Education helps to explain why they are struggling so painfully, and also reminds us what higher education could be if the tide turned in UK political culture and a more creative and cosmopolitan policy was once again able to flourish. In the webinar on 7 October Vassiliki and Simon will present insights from the book and discuss with the participant audience how we might rebuild the broken bridges – how we can once again become positive about migration, invite in European students, celebrate the sharing of educational diversity, embrace and learn from educational relations beyond UK shores, and re-Europeanise British universities.