[Livia]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

No, but students from Asia and Africa can be paying tens of thousands per year and I don't know about you... But I don't think I would pay that sort of money to study in a country where I didn't feel welcome. Not when there are other options available. Obviously many will still come but it seems unlikely that there won't be a significant decrease in interest.

The main issue though, is the research / PhD funding provided by Europe, and private entities within the EU. The government has this far offered up no plans at all for how that funding is going to be replaced, and R&D funding is absolutely essential for world class Universities.

I still have quite a few friends studying towards PhDs and the consensus has very much been... Get your PhD finished, as quickly as humanly possible, because in a few years time funding may simply not be there.

I don't agree that highly qualified people feel they are not welcome. You may think they feel like that because of your stance on this subject. However, I don't think they do. I seems to me that only anti-Brexit people have this doom-laden view of our country that the rest of the world doesn't seem to share. As people have said, Australia is difficult to get in to, but people still want to go there.