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Book SynopsisThis 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.
Trade ReviewMike 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. -- Roger Brown * THE *
Finn (history, University of Exeter) examines the economic, political, and cultural impact of Brexit on British universities, and considers what the Brexit moment says about the place of British universities in the society they seek to critique, support, and advance. The analysis explores implications for staff and students, research and funding, international academic citizenship, and the broader place of the university in contemporary British society. -- Annotation ©2018 * (protoview.com) *
Accessible and passionately argued… The value of Finn’s approach is that it goes beyond the short-term material damage posed by Brexit… Rather, Brexit becomes representative of much deeper problems surrounding the mission of British universities and their conflicting roles as civic, national and global institutions. The howl of the Brexit vote becomes a symptom of a longterm decline in social cohesiveness and equality of opportunity that universities have been unwilling or unable to ameliorate.
-- Philip Taylor in Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education
Table of Contents1. Introduction - Brexit and the universitiesPART 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
