Universities are a bargaining chip in the Brexit free-trade future

Higher education, although clearly not a government priority, was becoming in late 2018 a bargaining chip as the UK considered its future outside the EU. Anne Corbett examined the UK government’s proposal to treat higher education as a sweetener for free trade deals, an idea that was likely to have life in it whatever the immediate Brexit outcome.

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ESO: In Focus: Brexit - The United Kingdom and the European Union http://www.europeansources.info/record/brexit-the-united-kingdom-and-the-european-union/

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