EU exit would hurt UK HE, says ex-Europe minister
Leaving the EU would be “devastating” for the UK’s higher education sector, the country’s former Minister for Europe, Keith Vaz, has said.
Leaving the EU would be “devastating” for the UK’s higher education sector, the country’s former Minister for Europe, Keith Vaz, has said.
International recruitment is driving overall enrolment growth at universities across Europe, according to the European University Association’s Trends 2015 report. Internationalisation is among the highest priorities for EU higher education institutions, it also found.
The UK Home Office's only Liberal Democrat minister has resigned, claiming that the Conservatives do not pursue a “rational evidence-based policy” on immigration. And a new report shows EU migrants contributed £20bn in 10 years.
A record 270,000 students received grants to study or train abroad in 2012-13 under the EU student mobility programme Erasmus – more than twice the number of beneficiaries a decade ago, the latest statistics have shown.
In a few years' time we'll have millions of people becoming mobile for education, so we have to open up and make Europe more attractive to the outside world