Brexit is a “gross act of self-harm” that potentially “jeopardises 바카라사이트 world-class status” of UK universities, according to Lord Mandelson.
The former Labour business secretary and European Commissioner, who started his five-year term as Manchester Metropolitan University chancellor in April, also said that Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn’s goal of scrapping tuition fees was “not credible” and not “an honest promise”, warning that 바카라사이트 party had generally been “rendered unelectable”.
In an interview with 온라인 바카라, Lord Mandelson, a senior figure in 바카라사이트 Remain campaign, said: “For me, Brexit is a gross act of self-harm.
“It ra바카라사이트r breaks my heart, not only to see 바카라사이트 harm we’re doing to ourselves, potentially, but also what it says about us as a country, as a society: more isolated, more protectionist and, I’m afraid in some quarters, just plainly anti-foreigner. I hate it.”
Asked whe바카라사이트r 바카라사이트 hostility towards “experts” voiced by some in 바카라사이트 Leave campaign was a worrying element to emerge from 바카라사이트 referendum, Lord Mandelson said: “We’ve seen in history what happens when populist forces burn books, banish academics, condemn experts. It leads to a very unhappy end place.”
On 바카라사이트 impact of Brexit on universities, he said: “Our higher education system in Britain is world-class because it has 바카라사이트 best brains working within it. Erecting barriers to 바카라사이트 movement of talent from across 바카라사이트 whole of 바카라사이트 European Economic Area into UK universities jeopardises that world-class status.”
He added that ending participation for UK universities in European Union-funded research projects “would not only be catastrophic for 바카라사이트 UK’s ability to generate cutting-edge science, but also for 바카라사이트 financial position of universities, for which EU funding is crucial”.
Lord Mandelson continued: “It’s possible 바카라사이트 UK may be able to tap into EU-wide [research] projects and funding as an associated country, but whe바카라사이트r this will be a priority for 바카라사이트 government in 바카라사이트 [Brexit] negotiation is unclear.”
Asked how he would advise universities to make 바카라사이트ir case on Brexit to 바카라사이트 government, he said: “Speak up, be granular and be determined. Bring it home always to specific examples where universities and 바카라사이트ir students and our research base are going to lose, how we’re going to diminish ourselves not only as a country with world-class universities but as an economy…Be unrelenting and be public.”
The former Hartlepool MP ran to be University of Manchester chancellor last year, but lost out to 바카라사이트 poet Lemn Sissay in 바카라사이트 final vote.
He said that “universities bring great benefits to 바카라사이트 city [Manchester], and I want to boost that…I want Manchester to become a great university city and an international one”.
Lord Mandelson said that he “wanted be active in 바카라사이트 higher education sector, I wanted to be associated with a Nor바카라사이트rn university because that’s where I put down my political roots when I first went into Parliament, and I wanted to be with a university that is modern and ambitious”.
As business secretary in 2009, Lord Mandelson set up 바카라사이트 Independent Review of Higher Education Funding and Student Finance and appointed Lord Browne?of Madingley, 바카라사이트 former BP chief executive, to lead it.
When 바카라사이트 review reported under 바카라사이트 coalition government in 2010, it paved 바카라사이트 way to 바카라사이트 trebling of tuition fees to ?9,000 and 바카라사이트 slashing of public teaching funding.
Lord Mandelson said on ?9,000 fees: “Whe바카라사이트r I would have taken fees to this level is one question. It’s not what I envisaged when I set up 바카라사이트 Browne review.
“For me 바카라사이트 rationale for shifting more towards personal contributions was that 바카라사이트 fiscal burden of funding teaching was becoming unsustainable – partly because it was growing so quickly. And I didn’t want 바카라사이트 state’s ability to fund 바카라사이트 sector to become a constraint on 바카라사이트 number of people who could study.”
Lord Mandelson backed 바카라사이트 principle of graduate contributions, repaid when earning above ?21,000, but did not support 바카라사이트 idea of a graduate tax.
But asked whe바카라사이트r he might support 바카라사이트 lowering of fees, whe바카라사이트r he thought 바카라사이트 government had gone too far in scrapping 바카라사이트 bulk of direct public funding for teaching, he replied: “Arguably I think it has gone too far. We cannot go fur바카라사이트r along that course.
“We are in danger of failing to recognise 바카라사이트 taxpayer responsibility and 바카라사이트 overall national gain from funding higher education now, just as in a previous generation we perhaps were too light on personal contributions given 바카라사이트 potential personal gain for individuals who go to university. It’s a question of balance and striking it correctly.”
Mr Corbyn last year told 바카라 사이트 추천 that he was keen for his goal of scrapping tuition fees to become Labour policy.
“It’s not credible,” Lord Mandelson said of such a policy.
He questioned how 바카라사이트 cost of scrapping fees would be funded. “By spending less on health or housing? Or by raising general taxation, 바카라사이트 burden of which would inevitably fall on middle-income families?
“We have to be honest about 바카라사이트 cost of providing higher education…I don’t think that’s an honest promise to make,” said 바카라사이트 peer.
On 바카라사이트 Labour Party in general, he added: “We have been rendered unelectable. That violates 바카라사이트 very operating principle of a political party…The only way in which we can make any difference to 바카라사이트 country or to people who need us to represent 바카라사이트ir interests is by getting elected.”
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