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Can UK universities remain European after Brexit?

By Nic Mitchell Posted in Blog, Student-Mobility, Uncategorized , Brexit, Britain, Commission, DelaCour, Erasmus, EU, EUA, European, European Union, free movement, Horizon 2020, immigration, Mobility, Nicola Dandridge, referendum, research, Swiss, SwissCore, Switzerland, Theresa May, Universities UK, University World News | Comments Off

Are there lessons for Brexit Britain to learn from Switzerland’s threatened exclusion from the European Union’s collaborative programmes for mobility and research, such as Erasmus+ and the Horizon 2020, after a referendum vote to restrict immigration? ERASMUS is arguably one of the European Union’s biggest success stories in demonstrating the value of the European project. […]

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