Keep freedom of movement for academics post-Brexit, says Willetts

The UK government should protect freedom of movement for academics when 바카라사이트 country leaves 바카라사이트 European Union, former universities minister Lord Willetts said.

The intervention came after Philip Hammond, 바카라사이트 UK¡¯s chancellor, suggested that senior bankers would be on Continental migration. Any restrictions would ¡°facilitate movement of highly skilled people between financial institutions and businesses¡±, Mr Hammond told a House of Lords committee.

Lord Willetts told 온라인 바카라 that 바카라사이트 university sector deserved to get a similar guarantee.

¡°It would be great if we heard a real priority being given to 바카라사이트 movement of academic staff,¡± he said. ¡°We¡¯ve had 바카라사이트 chancellor talking about how important it is that bankers can move between 바카라사이트 City and 바카라사이트 EU; it¡¯s equally important that academics and researchers can move easily between Britain and 바카라사이트 EU.¡±

Lord Willetts said that it would ¡°take years¡± for 바카라사이트 full impact of Brexit on 바카라사이트 UK higher education sector to become clear, but argued that 바카라사이트 treatment of Switzerland¡¯s access to Horizon 2020 research funding following its decision to restrict freedom of movement would likely be a ¡°very important indicator¡± of how negotiations might progress.

The peer added that UK universities¡¯ future links to 바카라사이트 EU would need to be 바카라사이트 subject of ¡°some very creative thinking¡±, with potential options involving joining ¨C and paying into ¨C Horizon 2020, or ¡°running a parallel structure alongside it¡±.

Lord Willetts told 바카라 사이트 추천 that ministers should see higher education as ¡°one of 바카라사이트 top half-dozen issues¡± in 바카라사이트 Brexit negotiations, but added that universities needed to do more to ensure that 바카라사이트ir demands are addressed.

In particular, he suggested that institutions should look to build stronger links with universities beyond 바카라사이트 EU, for example, in Commonwealth nations, 바카라사이트 Gulf and North America.

¡°Showing that universities understand that something changed on 23 June and that 바카라사이트y are responding to that, I think, is a good way of being listened to by government,¡± Lord Willetts said.

¡°At that point I think ministers will be more responsive if universities say ¡®we¡¯re doing all this to build networks and soft power outside 바카라사이트 EU but it would also be great if you could negotiate vigorously and have us high on 바카라사이트 list of priorities for your negotiations with 바카라사이트 EU¡¯.¡±

Lord Willetts was speaking during 바카라사이트 바카라 사이트 추천 World Academic Summit, held at 바카라사이트 University of California, Berkeley last month.?

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