Survey finds wide variation in UK university support for EU staff

Actually, covering EU settlement costs and not covering the costs of non-EU Tier 2 visa renewals and ILR applications is discriminatory. It implies that one set of employees are worth supporting while another class are not. Ultimately, paying £65 is a band-aid related to panic while when new EU staff come in they will discover that when it comes to paying £,000 for visas and visa renewals that the support will fall away quickly as this will add hundreds of thousands of £ to university HR budgets. The University of Leeds (not mentioned in the article) showed tremendous foresight on this dimension, not only covering tier 2 visa renewals but also ILR costs of its staff and granting zero interest loans to cover any additional costs. This removes a huge disincentive to staff related to locating in the UK and also shows very forward thinking in ensuring that all staff are treated equally regardless of where they happen to be coming from.