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What do the choices of university applicants mean for the global prospects of the UK?

“Will we never be set free?” Marwood asks of Danny, “the purveyor of rare herbs and prescribed chemicals”, in the film Withnail and I. It is a question we might well ask of Brexit, but the answer is sadly no.

As multiple problems emerge across the economy with the trade agreement between the UK and the European Union approved by parliament in December, universities have not been left untouched. As Fiona McIntyre reports from yesterday’s Universities UK International conference on transnational education, Northumbria University is considering making more of its staff employees of its Dutch subsidiary college to circumvent the workforce issues of Brexit.

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