BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:talks.ox.ac.uk BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Book launch – Brexit\, EU Students and UK higher education: Brok en bridges - Simon Marginson (University of Oxford)\, Vassiliki Papatsiba (University of Cardiff) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20251007T140000 DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20251007T150000 UID:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/d816c6aa-2bf3-4c58-8422-560a6993ecc8/ DESCRIPTION:On 23 June 2016 a narrow majority (51.5%) of the UK electorate voted to leave the European Union. The Leave campaign’s slogans were ’Take back control’ and after the vote\, ‘Get Brexit done’\, a pro cess that was completed in the final break in 2020\, amid toxic anti-EU rh etoric from the then Conservative Party government. The Brexit decision\, which polls show is now regretted by a clear majority of UK voters\, was a monumental error of historic proportion. Despite predictions that it woul d destabilise and damage the European Union it has had no such effect\, bu t the damage to the UK itself has been immense. There has been no evident increase in the level of control that British voters enjoy. Policies of au sterity\, welfare cuts and privatisation of public services have continued unabated since 2016. Meanwhile\, as well as suppressing trade and economi c activity and partly isolating the UK in its geographical region\, Brexit has been the springboard for a sharp deterioration in political and civic life. The nativist\, White supremacist and anti-migration sentiment first fostered in the Brexit campaign now dominates British politics. On 13 Sep tember a crowd of 100\,000-150\,000\, largely male and almost entirely Whi te\, carried racist slogans during its march in London on 13 September\; a nd the Reform Party\, which now has a 50/50 chance of taking government at the next election\, has undertaken to abolish the migration status of 430 \,000 people granted Leave to Remain in UK\, including many people working in UK higher education.\n\nHigher education has a crucial role in fosteri ng values of internationalism\, education for all\, inclusion\, cosmopolit an tolerance and the common good. The shared nature of education and knowl edge positions higher education and academic research against all forms of nativism and national closure. The UK Higher Education sector was strongl y opposed to Brexit in 2016\, as were student-age voters. Prior to Brexit UK higher education had been highly engaged in Europe\, through collaborat ion with European researchers in the Horizon research programme\, the cont ributions of EU citizens to British science\, EU funding of educational in frastructure in British regions\, the entry of non-UK EU citizens into aca demic posts in UK facilitated by free movement within the EU\, and above a ll via EU students studying alongside UK citizens and other international students in UK classrooms. As international students in a non-commercial r elation with UK universities\, EU students provided crucial educational an d cultural balance within cross-border education. More than 30\,000 EU cit izen students entered the UK each year through the Erasmus + programme and in the last year before Brexit was completed\, 152\,905 non-UK EU student s were enrolled in UK degree programmes on the basis of UK home country fe es. After Brexit\, Erasmus students vanished completely and the number of EU students entering UK degrees each year dropped to less than half. After Brexit EU students in UK have been required to pay international student fees which average more than £22\,000 per year for first degrees. There a re many good higher education options in Europe at a small fraction of thi s cost. Since Brexit the number of EU citizens enrolled in doctorates and becoming academic staff in UK has also dropped sharply.\n\nIn the late 201 0s the ESRC Centre for Global Higher Education gathered data on the expect ed effects of Brexit\, conducting interviews with academic staff and unive rsity leaders in 12 contrasting UK universities. Almost every interviewee expressed concern about the loss of talented EU students and the education al and cultural diversity they provided. Just published by Bloomsbury Acad emic\, Brexit\, EU Students and UK Higher Education: Broken Bridges\, by V assiliki Papatsiba and Simon Marginson\, reports that research\, demonstra ting the gaping hole that Brexit has created in British universities. Sett ing the study data in the context of the internationalisation of higher ed ucation 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 a nd revenues\, the quality and diversity of education\, and the heightened competition between institutions. At a time when higher education institut ions 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 ar e struggling so painfully\, and also reminds us what higher education coul d be if the tide turned in UK political culture and a more creative and co smopolitan policy was once again able to flourish. In the webinar on 7 Oct ober Vassiliki and Simon will present insights from the book and discuss w ith the participant audience how we might rebuild the broken bridges – h ow we can once again become positive about migration\, invite in European students\, celebrate the sharing of educational diversity\, embrace and le arn from educational relations beyond UK shores\, and re-Europeanise Briti sh universities.\nSpeakers:\nSimon Marginson (University of Oxford)\, Vass iliki Papatsiba (University of Cardiff) LOCATION:15 Norham Gardens (Seminar Room D (Department of Education) and M S Teams)\, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY TZID:Europe/London URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/d816c6aa-2bf3-4c58-8422-560a6993ecc8/ BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:display DESCRIPTION:Talk:Book launch – Brexit\, EU Students and UK higher educat ion: Broken bridges - Simon Marginson (University of Oxford)\, Vassiliki P apatsiba (University of Cardiff) TRIGGER:-PT1H END:VALARM END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR