Tag Archives: education
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Uncertain futures: How Brexit could leave our children less protected
Uncertainty reigns supreme in the Brexit negotiations. But what is now clear is that Brexit will weaken our rights, protections and shared standards. And while many hundreds of articles have been written on customs unions and chlorinated chicken, scant attention has been paid to what Brexit specifically means for our youngest generation. How might children be affected by Brexit?
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Brexit and the Industrial Strategy: counter-productive
In each of the five foundations of the Industrial Strategy – ideas, people, infrastructure, business environment and places – we learn more about the advantages of staying in the EU than the supposed opportunities outside it.
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Brexit and the Music Industry: Concerted Objections
2% of people in the music world thought that Brexit would be good for the industry. Recent reports show why we should listen to the 98% who know the score.
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Brexit and Young People
It is self-evidently young people who are going to have to live longest with the consequences of Brexit, if it happens. These consequences are numerous and wide-ranging.
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Yorkshire, Brexit and the General Election – A film from FRANCE 24 (in English)
FRANCE 24 came over to Yorkshire to film a piece on how people and politicians in the region felt about Brexit and the General Election. It was a pleasure to take them to University of Leeds and Digital Exchange in Bradford to explore the views of students and the technology community. Pour nos amis français, il ya a une version en français aussi.
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What does the election result mean for Brexit?
The electorate rejected May’s approach to Brexit. But as a result of losing her majority, she has now made an alliance with the DUP. Uncertainty reigns. There is no majority in Parliament for a hard Brexit, but what is there a majority for?
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Brexit and Higher Education
Higher education is one of the sectors of the British economy that will be most clearly and negatively affected by Theresa May’s blind pursuit of a hard Brexit.
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50 EU benefits #37
Between 2007-2012, UK received over £466m EU funding for health research.
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50 EU benefits #35
The UK gets some 22% of European research grants, more than any other country.
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50 EU benefits #34
200,000+ UK students use Erasmus programme, increasing long-term employability.
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50 EU benefits #25
Students from the EU generate £2.3bn for the UK economy & support 19,000 jobs.
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The Erasmus generation
Today I had the pleasure of speaking to students at a school in York about how the EU works, what the key issues facing our continent are, and how we can best tackle such issues. Naturally, the talk with the students gravitated toward the looming referendum on Britain’s continued membership of the EU. And it’s […]
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Silence, bully and intimidate: a campaign strategy
Yesterday, I reported on the strongly pro-European stance adopted by Britain’s universities. Vice-chancellors are queueing up to raise the alarm about a possible Brexit, pointing out that a ‘No’ vote in the upcoming referendum would not only cut off a critical source of funding for their work, but would rip British researchers out of vital […]
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More than just trade
As so much of the debate about Europe has simply been focusing on the single market, it’s worth recalling that the EU is about much more than trade. When we joined the EU (then the EEC), we actually left the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) because we wanted more than free trade: we wanted to […]
