Tag: referendum
EU vaccine row reopens Irish border can of worms
Posted by Nic Mitchell | Feb 3, 2021 | Blog, BREXIT, Featured | 0
Can Keir Starmer land a knockout blow on the Tories?
by Nic Mitchell | Jul 24, 2021 | Blog, BREXIT, Featured | 0
Nic Mitchell considers what Keir Starmer must do to make Labour a more attractive alternative to Boris Johnson’s Conservative chaotic government.
Read MoreThe UK still needs to sort out student mobility
by Nic Mitchell | Jul 13, 2021 | Blog, Featured, Universities | 0
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.
EU vaccine row reopens Irish border can of worms
by Nic Mitchell | Feb 3, 2021 | Blog, BREXIT, Featured | 0
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
Read MoreIs there a third way to sort Brexit?
by Nic Mitchell | Sep 18, 2019 | Blog, BREXIT | 0
Well, at least the Liberal “Democrats” have put some clear blue water between the main political...
Read MoreDon’t you know anyone who voted for Brexit?
by Nic Mitchell | Apr 8, 2019 | Blog, BREXIT | 0
Does the UK higher education elite need to break out of its London and South East bubble and attempt to understand why people in Northern cities like Sunderland and Middlesbrough voted heavily in favour of Brexit?
Read MoreDon’t ignore grass roots for internationalisation
by Nic Mitchell | Sep 21, 2017 | Blog, Universities | 0
DESPITE the rise of inward-looking nationalism, the election of Donald Trump on an ‘America First’...
Read MoreCan UK universities remain European after Brexit?
by Nic Mitchell | Jan 29, 2017 | Blog, Universities | 0
Are there lessons for Brexit Britain to learn from Switzerland’s threatened exclusion from the...
Read MoreSwiss lessons for UK universities’ referendum campaign
by Nic Mitchell | Mar 9, 2016 | Blog, Universities | 0
I don’t know if British university vice-chancellors are really likely to follow the call from the...
Read MoreUK universities launch campaign to stay in European Union
by Lucy Shackleton | Aug 4, 2015 | Blog, BREXIT | 0
UNIVERSITIES UK, or UUK, has launched Universities for Europe, a campaign to highlight how the...
Read MoreSwiss immigration vote is warning for the UK
by Nic Mitchell | Aug 16, 2014 | Blog, HE-Comms | 0
Switzerland’s political elite were not the only ones taken aback by a popular vote against mass...
Read MoreEU exit would damage British universities
by Nic Mitchell | Jul 14, 2014 | Blog, BREXIT | 0
Universities have warned that a British exit from the European Union would be “potentially...
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