Global rankings will show this week that the UK’s leading universities are among the best in the world but it is a position that will be threatened if, as a result of Brexit, we lose these very academics who have helped put us there. A significant contributor to that success is the quality of the EU — and overseas — researchers and students who have been attracted to work and study by the outward-looking and diverse intellectual communities within our universities. What is also clear is that other universities outside the top rankings and in areas such as Singapore, China, the US and elsewhere in Europe, are investing heavily in higher education and closing the gap with the world’s top 20 which in this week’s…

Source: The Times September 03, 2017 23:03 UTC