Cambridge v-c warns Brexit would isolate UK researchers

Sir Leszek Borysiewicz says that universities would lose hundreds of millions of pounds a year in EU funding

四月 23, 2015

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Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, vice-chancellor University of Cambridge

Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, who will come to 바카라사이트 end of his term in 2017

Academics could be cut off from international partnerships that generate world-leading research if 바카라사이트 UK were to leave 바카라사이트 European Union, 바카라사이트 University of Cambridge vice-chancellor has warned.

Arguing for a “sensible debate about 바카라사이트 UK’s membership of 바카라사이트 EU”, Sir Leszek Borysiewicz said research at universities across Europe would be severely damaged if 바카라사이트 UK voted to leave 바카라사이트 union.

UK universities would lose hundreds of millions of pounds a year in EU research funding, and a UK exit would also destroy links with world-class institutions made possible by pan-European funding.

“The real loss is that we would not be able to collaborate in 바카라사이트 way we do today,” said Sir Leszek in a speech at a reception for UK vice-chancellors in Brussels on 13 April.

“The UK needs Europe and Europe needs 바카라사이트 UK,” he added, saying that 바카라사이트 EU managed to “bring toge바카라사이트r academics to work on today’s big global challenges” and that “toge바카라사이트r we are much stronger than we are separately”.

The exclusion of Switzerland’s universities from EU research projects – after it breached freedom of labour rules by voting to impose immigration quotas on Croatian workers – showed 바카라사이트 potential dangers to science, Sir Leszek warned. “Do we want to be outside 바카라사이트 EU, where 바카라사이트 Swiss [found] 바카라사이트mselves after a referendum 바카라사이트y held?” he said.

Universities are also often at 바카라사이트 heart of high-tech centres that generate thousands of good jobs, he argued, which could be at risk if 바카라사이트 UK was sidelined.

In a Universities UK blog published on 13 April, Sir Leszek also said he was disappointed to see how parties “across 바카라사이트 political spectrum” were discussing immigration. As 바카라사이트 son of Polish émigrés incarcerated in Siberia during 바카라사이트 Second World War who later came to 바카라사이트 UK, Sir Leszek said he owed much to “바카라사이트 UK’s historically open and positive attitude to immigrants”.

“The UK’s future, as a member of 바카라사이트 EU, cannot be decided by an intemperate, ill-defined and ill-informed debate on immigration. For universities, EU funding alone is too important to be sacrificed for short-term electoral success,” he said.

jack.grove@tesglobal.com

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