This open access book examines the effects of Brexit on UK higher education, based on the largest academic research project conducted in the UK across 12 universities in all four nations.

The Brexit decision in 2016 has brought about a profound transformation in UK higher education, with the decline in EU engagement reshaping the sector in many areas, including recruitment of academic staff, research collaboration, university facilities and the declining diversity of students in British institutions. This study, grounded in 127 interviews with university leaders and academic staff, focuses especially on the sharp reduction in EU student entry into UK universities and how this is being experienced in the UK.

With an analysis of the impact of Brexit in three areas, revenue, diversity and competition, the book also offers a broader understanding of the internationalisation of higher education in the UK. The authors review developments in policy and practice in the internationalisation of UK higher education and research, including scholarly studies and perspectives. The argument is supported by rich data including up to date statistics on enrolment and well-crafted qualitative case studies. Significantly, Brexit, EU Students and UK Higher Education offers implicit and explicit wider lessons which can be expanded to other HE systems and global HE.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by UKRI.

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This book examines the effects of Brexit on UK higher education, based on the largest academic research project conducted in the UK across 12 universities in all four nations.

[all chapters authored by Vassiliki Papatsiba and Simon Marginson unless otherwise indicated]

1. Introduction
2. Internationalisation and UK higher education
3. Brexit and UK higher education by Ludovic Highman, Simon Marginson and Vassiliki Papatsiba
4. EU student numbers: “The sector may see them disappear overnight”
5. Diversity: “It’s about our being as a university”
6. Competition: “Universities will be almost poaching students off one another”
7. Case studies of 12 individual universities
8. Discussion and conclusions
Bibliography
Index

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This book examines the effects of Brexit on UK higher education, based on the largest academic research project conducted in the UK across 12 universities in all four nations.
The book is based on the largest academic research project conducted in the UK across 12 universities in all four nations, with 127 interviewees

The Bloomsbury Higher Education Research series provides the evidence-based academic output of the world’s leading research centre on higher education, the ESRC/RE Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE) in the UK. The core focus of CGHE’s work and of The Bloomsbury Higher Education Research series is higher education, especially the future of higher education in the changing global landscape. The emergence of CGHE reflects the remarkable growth in the role and importance of universities and other higher education institutions, and research and science, across the world. Corresponding to CGHE’s projects, monographs in the series will consist of social science research on global, international, national and local aspects of higher education, drawing on methodologies in education, learning theory, sociology, economics, political science and policy studies. Monographs will be prepared so as to maximise worldwide readership and selected on the basis of their relevance to one or more of higher education policy, management, practice and theory. Topics will range from teaching and learning and technologies, to research and research impact in industry, national system design, the public good role of universities, social stratification and equity, institutional governance and management, and the cross-border mobility of people, institutions, programmes, ideas and knowledge. The Bloomsbury Higher Education Research series is at the cutting edge of world research on higher education.


Advisory board:
Paul Blackmore, King’s College London, UK
Brendan Cantwell, Michigan State University, USA
Gwilym Croucher, University of Melbourne, Australia
Carolina Guzman-Valenzuela, University of Chile, Chile
Glen Jones, University of Toronto, Canada
Barbara Kehm, University of Glasgow, UK
Jenny Lee, University of Arizona, USA
Ye Liu, King’s College London, UK
Christine Musselin, Sciences Po, France
Alis Oancea, University of Oxford, UK
Imanol Ordorika, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico
Laura Perna, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Gary Rhoades, University of Arizona, USA
Susan Robertson, University of Cambridge, UK
Yang Rui, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Pedro Teixeira, University of Porto, Portugal
Jussi Valimaa, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
N.V. Varghese, National University of Educational Planning and Administration, India
Marijk van der Wende, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
Po Yang, Peking University, China
Akiyoshi Yonezawa, Tohoku University, Japan

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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781350553804
Publisert
2025-08-07
Utgiver
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC; Bloomsbury Academic
Vekt
560 gr
Høyde
236 mm
Bredde
166 mm
Dybde
22 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
282

Om bidragsyterne

Vassiliki Papatsiba is Reader in Social Sciences – Education, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, UK.

Simon Marginson is Professor of Higher Education, Department of Education, University of Oxford, UK.