United Kingdom

The United Kingdom hosts the world’s second largest number of international students, with recruitment encouraged through national education policies. Yet, restrictive migration policies contradict this narrative.

With rising numbers of international academics, the discussions around the possible benefits that they provide to their fellow nationals and home country are well documented in the literature.

International academic staff in higher education are considered per se a signal of attractiveness and success. In this article, we discuss the findings of a recent study on international staff working in the United Kingdom.

Different interpretations and contestations related to internationalization and decolonization in universities result in a contradictory picture.

The future of further education is under challenge in the United Kingdom.

This article reviews the implications of the Brexit deal for UK higher education and research. It argues that future scenarios will be based not only on the treaties signed with the European Union, but also on policy preferences.

Brexit supporters did not like the Erasmus student mobility exchange program. Will the new Turing scheme, devised by the British government, be able to provide students with the same benefits?