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UK science and technology after Brexit: How to fix it

28 Nov 2022

This policy brief sets out the challenges facing UK academics working in science, technology, engineering and medicine (STEM) fields as a result of Brexit. It enumerates the problems UK universities are facing in recruiting staff from the EU – and examines whether they are managing to recruit more academics from the rest of the world. It then discusses the impact that Brexit has had on the flows of European workers into sectors of the economy that employ the most STEM graduates, and whether the new immigration regime, which came into operation under the Johnson government, is liberal enough to offset the loss of free movement. Then it considers investment, and whether high-STEM sectors have struggled after the vote to leave the EU. We conclude with a discussion of the policies that the government can pursue to improve UK science and technology after Brexit, both in academia and in the wider economy.
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Authors

Zach Meyers, John Springford

Published in
United Kingdom

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