Higher education and research: Multiple negative effects and new no opportunities after Brexit

Highman, Ludovic, Marginson, Simon and Papatsiba, Vassiliki ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3005-1162 2023. Higher education and research: Multiple negative effects and new no opportunities after Brexit. Contemporary Social Science 18 (2) , pp. 216-234. 10.1080/21582041.2023.2192044

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Abstract

Brexit has weakened collaboration between UK higher education institutions and their EU counterparts, with negative implications for UK resources and capacity, without leading to new global strategies and opportunities. In 2020 the UK government withdrew from the Erasmus student mobility scheme and introduced the Turing scheme. While Erasmus had supported both outward UK student mobility and inward movement from Europe, Turing supports only outward mobility. In 2021–2022 the cessation of UK tuition fee arrangements for EU citizens entering UK degrees led to a sharp drop in numbers. Collaborative European research programmes have been crucial in building the infrastructure and network centrality of UK science and in attracting EU citizen researchers, but at the time of writing future UK participation as a non-member country was unresolved. The long uncertainty about this, coupled with the cessation of free people movement, have triggered the exit of some UK-based researchers and declines in UK researchers' competitiveness in European grants, EU doctoral students and established researchers entering UK, and EU country citizens as a proportion of UK academic staff. In addition, the loss of access to European structural funds has slowed the modernisation of UK higher education institutions and reduced their social contributions.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education)
Publisher:	Taylor and Francis Group
ISSN:	2158-2041
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	14 July 2023
Date of Acceptance:	9 March 2023
Last Modified:	19 Dec 2023 02:21
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/161043

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