Tag: UK
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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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.
Balancing the risks with having the AstraZeneca jab
Nic Mitchell explores the balance of risk with the AstraZeneca jab after he had the first dose of the vaccine and says we shouldn’t disregard a star-player in the battle against COVID-19
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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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Honest & timely communications in corona crisis
Nic Mitchell believes sharing experiences in the corona crisis helped higher education public relations and communication professionals to sustain morale
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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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Mixed messages about reopening campuses safely
Mixed messages are coming out of universities in the Western world as they struggle to overcome uncertainty about the safe reopening of campuses after months of COVID-19 lockdowns
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Putting bounce back in UK global higher education
Former Universities Minister Jo Johnson and brother of the British Prime Minister has made a radical call to scrap much of the Conservative Party’s approach to international higher education for the last decade.
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