This timely book provides an invaluable analysis of the impact the Brexit decision has
had, and will have, on Britain’s universities. International by nature, British universities draw their students and staff from across the global community. Britain is a major beneficiary of EU-sponsored research funding through the Horizon 2020 scheme and partnerships as part of the European Research Area. Britain’s universities have world-leading reputations, with the UK sector second only to the United States in international prestige. Brexit has – already – affected this, with a drop in student recruitment from abroad and an increase in EU academics electing to leave the British university system.
British Universities in the Brexit Moment offers the first book-length treatment of these issues. It situates the ‘Brexit question’ in the context of prevailing developments in UK higher education such as marketization and provides an indispensable guide to the material impacts of Brexit on Britain’s universities.
Price: $73.99
Pages: 216
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
Imprint: Emerald Publishing Limited
Publication Date:
10 January 2018
ISBN: 9781787437432
Format: Paperback
Mike Finn has written a useful and timely book and one hopes that it will be widely read across the sector, and especially in vice-chancellors’ offices.
Mike Finn is Director of Liberal Arts and Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Exeter. A past recipient of the Times Higher Education Humanities and Social Sciences Writing Prize, he is a contemporary historian with an interest in education policy. His previous books include The Gove Legacy: Education in Britain After the Coalition (2015). In 2014 he founded the Centre for Education Policy Analysis at Liverpool Hope University, and he has also worked as political adviser and speechwriter in Westminster.
1. Introduction - Brexit and the universities
PART I: The impact(s) of Brexit
2. Staff and students
3. Research and funding
PART II: The implications of Brexit
4. Universities and society in modern Britain
PART III: Conclusions
5. The political economy of higher education in Brexit Britain
