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The 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.

Can universities reopen safely after Covid-19?

by Nic Mitchell | Sep 1, 2020 | Blog, Featured, Universities | 0

The media seized on UCU leader Jo Grady’s claim that universities risked becoming the “care homes of the second wave” of the virus.

Crystallising what universities are really for!

by Nic Mitchell | Apr 3, 2020 | Blog, Featured, Universities | 0

One the many spinoffs of the coronavirus is crystallising what universities are really for, according to the Chief Scientific Officer at the UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Carry on Erasmus+ Horizon 2020 EU-UK collaboration

by Nic Mitchell | Feb 25, 2020 | Blog, BREXIT, Featured | 0

Universities UK is working hard to clear up confusion about what the signing of the UK-EU Withdrawal Agreement means for continued cooperation for Erasmus+ and Horizon 2020 programmes

Change in UK mood music to international students

by Nic Mitchell | Mar 19, 2019 | Blog, Universities | 0

The UK government’s International Education strategy should be just the first step in changing the mood music towards international students.

EU acts to protect funding for UK-EU student mobility

by Nic Mitchell | Feb 8, 2019 | Blog, Universities | 0

Students on Erasmus+ mobility programmes should be protected in the short-term from a possible no-deal Brexit, but longer-term mobility may be under threat unless the UK can reach an agreement to stay in the European Commission’s study abroad exchange scheme

Students and researchers need an orderly Brexit

by Nic Mitchell | Jan 28, 2019 | Blog, BREXIT | 0

Students who will be halfway through their Erasmus+ semesters abroad and researchers in the middle of cross-Channel European Union collaborative projects are understandably worried about what will happen after Brexit Day on March 29.