Tag: Brexit
Brexit, cancer and the unexpected as a freelance
Nic Mitchell looks at a decade running his own freelance business, De la Cour Communications, and what he didn’t expect while promoting student mobility and international higher education.
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Put a face mask on and save Christmas from COVID
Apologies to those who would just wish COVID away, but here’s why a few simple precautions like wearing a face mask could save us from a pre-Christmas lockdown.
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Disappearing European students at UK universities
Will studying in the UK be a luxury only the richest overseas students can afford and is this behind the dramatic fall in European students in this year’s UCAS student recruitment cycle?
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Can Keir Starmer land a knockout blow on the Tories?
Nic Mitchell considers what Keir Starmer must do to make Labour a more attractive alternative to Boris Johnson’s Conservative chaotic government.
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The UK still needs to sort out student mobility
Nic Mitchell says the challenges to getting more UK students to study or work abroad are similar to
when he started blogging about student mobility 9 years ago.
Can universities help put the global back into GB?
Can higher education help the UK to move on from the narrow nationalism of the Brexit campaign make Global Britain a reality again?
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Turing versus Erasmus+ row moves mobility up the agenda
Will the UK’s Turning scheme be any better at getting UK students to go on study or work placements abroad than Erasmus+?
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Fly over Europe with UK international HE strategy
Has UK higher education got its international strategy right for the world, including building a new relationship with Europe, post-Brexit and post-Covid?
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EU vaccine row reopens Irish border can of worms
Why Ursula von der Leyen’s short-lived EU vaccine war with the UK reopens a can of worms over Northern Ireland’s position in the single market, but still inside the UK
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A disaster or a new dawn for UK student mobility?
As the UK pulls out of Erasmus+, Nic Mitchell explores whether it is a disaster or a new dawn for British international student mobility.
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Bologna UK lifeline to European higher education
The Bologna Process offers UK universities a lifeline to the European Higher Education Area and another way to remain international after Brexit
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Brexit brinkmanship baffles the Euro experts
Nic Mitchell unravels the new row preventing the UK and EU securing a trade deal and says why he hopes the two sides can achieve peaceful coexistence
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