What does Brexit mean for students?

So on Thursday the 23rd of June the British people voted to leave the European union and  after speaking to several of my friends many were concerned with what happens now.

So what does that actually mean for university students in the UK and students who intend to study in the UK? Well, this question has to be answered in stages. First, we need to understand what the European Union provides higher education students in the UK,  following this I will explain the short term and long term effects for UK based HE students.

So what does the EU do for UK university students? Well, this may be harder to gauge than you might think as the impact of the EU can vary greatly from institution to institution from faculty to faculty to course, to course, to student to student even. In simple terms,  many things, for one the freedom of movement allows for students to easily study in other EU countries at the same cost as local students. also, there are considerable grants and funding options for postgraduate and faculty projects as well for the institutions as well.

Are We going to loose these services? Short term no nothing will change considering article 50 of the Lisbon treaty will not be triggered until at least September after the conservative leadership election and the "Statement on higher education and research following the EU referendum" on GOV.UK states nothing is really going to change in terms of funding and fees for EU students for years (for the duration of most current students courses) and should stay the same for 2017 starters at the moment.

Unfortunately, we simply don't know about the long term issues it all depends on the negotiations of the UK's exit from the EU. Universities may lose funding and competition for postgraduate grants and project funding may get more competitive. The bright side is that the EUA, which supports 850 universities, said "The Europe of universities will not be divided".

here are some great links that really helped with this post

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Mass Effect: Andromeda 18 Months on– A Good Game Trapped in a Great Shadow.

       We have all seen the reviews, we have all seen the memes and we have all seen the fallout. Mass Effect Andromeda (ME:A) the latest game in one of the greatest franchises in gaming history was utterly slaughtered by critics and fans Alike. Following the reputation of the original trilogy, a great set of trailers. People had their hopes up. People expecting a game on the level of the divine majesty of ME:2, or the very least the set up of ME:1, were disappointed with bad reviews and a buggy game. Now 18 months on after the patches and near collapse of Bioware I play ME:A for the first time to see if this game deserves the flack it got, to decide whether poor Management decisions, a bad game or high fan expectations is the reason we may never get a conclusion to this story or even another addition to the Mass effect title. Animation and Graphics. Now one of the first things I noticed, within the first few hours, was that the animations were so...
Read more

YouTube's ADPOCALYPSE: the consequences.

Image
I am sure you have heard of it but for those that don't know, What was/is the Adpocalyse? Well, in a sentence it was a series of "improvements" to allow advertisers to pull or customise where their ads would and wouldn't be placed, to allow their ads to be better received and more effective. This did not turnout as planned, what actually happened is that many prominent and not so prominent YouTubers found they had a drop in ads and massive drops of ad revenue. This change was obviously taken very poorly, A for the lack of warning given to creators and B the rather inconsistent and some would say unfair drops of income, Some would experience a drop of 80% in earnings were some would find no drop at all for very similar content. There was some serious outrage that i am sure you have seen. The fallout While it has taken some time for the effects to be clear, In my honest opinion the Adpocalypse could be the end of Youtube for several reasons. It...
Read more

Plagiar-what? My tips on how to avoid plagiarism

Image
For me when I was in high school and College all I need to do to avoid plagiarism was not to copy and paste, I was not prepared for how complex the task of writing a 1500 word assignment without plagiarising was. when I was given that don't plagiarise talk in my induction I didn't realise how hard it was when I got my assignment back.  So what is plagiarism? Well according to my university Anglia Ruskin plagiarism is defined as "Plagiarism is when you present someone else’s work, words, images, ideas, opinions or discoveries, whether published or not, as your own. It is also when you take the artwork, images, creative practice or computer-generated work of others, without properly acknowledging where this is from or you do this without their permission".  This definition simply means that any information that you find and repurpose for your assignments,that isn't common knowledge for the subject area, must be referenced correctly in your institution...
Read more