Visa system ‘does not function effectively’ for UK universities

Cambridge vice-chancellor says reforms are needed if foreign researchers are to be attracted to post-Brexit Britain

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June 22, 2018

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June 27, 2018

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Stephen Toope, vice-chancellor of the University of Cambridge, in conversation with John Gill, editor, Times Higher Education, at the Huawei Academic Salon

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