Brexit ‘being ignored’ as cause of UK universities’ problems

A collection of ad-libs apparently driven more by the intellectual predilections of the authors than by hard facts, How has the loss of EU students driven the decline in UK unis? Pre-Brexit EU students made a modest share of of income. What exactly isa "commercial" approach to HE? If you mean funded by students rather than the public, that direction of travel was underway well before Brexit with the introduction of fees. Why is it the role of UK universities to "create opportunities for students from the 'global south'? How has Brexit trapped students in shrinking horizons" assuming you are referring to FOMO how does it effect students more so than other UK citizens? If you are going ti refer yo an "invisible ripple" you need to identify how you determine the existence of the "ripple". The article slacks a clear hypothesis [its beginning is more a murmour of discontent better suited to a psarty political speech], presents no objective evidence yet alone a causal connection.

... and the response of the people who voted for Brexit to this book will be either a) "what book"? or b) "we're sick of experts."

Anybody know how much of the fees loans made to EU Ss over the years to Brexit are scheduled to be written off as irrecoverable from graduates now back in other nations and well beyond the reach of HMRC? Why was the UK taxpayer subsiding EU citizens to attend UK Us? - and how much did that subsidy cost or will it eventually cost? And the data on student movement? - How many EUs came to UK Us? How many UK UGs went to EU Us instead of UK Us?

The old John Cleese line about Stating the Bleeding Obvious springs to mind .... Academics are interviewed and are not particularly enamored with how Brexit has worked out ... Given that the vast majority of them were extremely anti it all along then quelle surprise ... What the article lacks is any substantive evidence . But that won't surprise anyone with even a passing knowledge of how academia works these days ..and while I am at it ...what has the global South got to do with the matter ...

Oh a lot of Brexiteers posting above. But lets be clear Brexit has been a massive self inflicted wound. The UK economy is around £200 billion smaller than it would have been with no Brexit and that means around £80 billion less in tax revenue of which around 3 to 4 billion could have gone into the higher education sector. Standards are plummeting as Universities desperately seek any student revenue no matter how bad the students are. So yes Brexit inflicted on this country by the Tories and Boris is an unmitigated disaster for the UK and its Universities.