EU has already started squeezing Russel Group members out of research budgets

Well, if things go really far down the *****er, just apply to a foreign university. I hear MIT is fantastic and in the nice bit of America. Alternatively, the University of Hong Kong is also brilliant (and practical, since they were the first people in the world to isolate the virus that caused SARS while there was an epidemic) and has English as the language of instruction.

It's started.
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/jul/12/uk-scientists-dropped-from-eu-projects-because-of-post-brexit-funding-fears

News coming in from across the country that EU research grants are drying up, Russell Group researchers are being overlooked for new projects and in some cases dropped immediately.

This is the beginning of very bad news for British universities - a large drop in research income.

It will be followed from next year by a similar drop in EU student numbers as those dry up due to uncertainty about future course funding and compatibility.

I mostly feel sad really, because the UK is now going to start a slide from premier position amongst EU universities to end up goodness knows where, perhaps something like Australia or Canada? Well down the pecking order. This is bad news for all of us, students, staff, researchers and for British success and scientific and cultural progress both here and around the world.

Considering that it's all happened because of exaggerated fears being stoked up about immigration by Tory interests representing some offshored tax-evading oligarchs, it's pretty depressing stuff.

It's started.
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/jul/12/uk-scientists-dropped-from-eu-projects-because-of-post-brexit-funding-fears

News coming in from across the country that EU research grants are drying up, Russell Group researchers are being overlooked for new projects and in some cases dropped immediately.

This is the beginning of very bad news for British universities - a large drop in research income.

It will be followed from next year by a similar drop in EU student numbers as those dry up due to uncertainty about future course funding and compatibility.

I mostly feel sad really, because the UK is now going to start a slide from premier position amongst EU universities to end up goodness knows where, perhaps something like Australia or Canada? Well down the pecking order. This is bad news for all of us, students, staff, researchers and for British success and scientific and cultural progress both here and around the world.

Considering that it's all happened because of exaggerated fears being stoked up about immigration by Tory interests representing some offshored tax-evading oligarchs, it's pretty depressing stuff.

Well, if things go really far down the *****er, just apply to a foreign university. I hear MIT is fantastic and in the nice bit of America. Alternatively, the University of Hong Kong is also brilliant (and practical, since they were the first people in the world to isolate the virus that caused SARS while there was an epidemic) and has English as the language of instruction.

I hear you can do advanced torture techniques at the University of Azerbaijan.

They offer full board as well, it's a former camp now run by Blair Holdings.

American universities are very expensive, there's no student loan for that and even if you pay your tuition fees somehow, you still have to eat and live somewhere. There are scholarships but they are limited.

Very sad.

I know at least one person whose research position (which generates profit & income for the university) is entirely funded on EU money.

Higher education is one area where the UK really is globally competitive.

If universities face closures and cuts then this will have an impact on local economies too.

Can't wait to see the Government get around to filling in this gap lost from EU funding, whilst simultaneous providing additional funding for the NHS and somehow managing to keep on track to 'balance the books'.

British universities should ask the government to increase research council budgets.

British universities will remain the best of Europe, alongside Switzerland, even with Brexit.

Yes, it really matters, the universities and the research-based industries they support are a very big part of Britain's economic strength and also a key outreach mechanism to the rest of the world of the sort allegedly favoured by Brexiteers.

The new government really must get a grip urgently on things like this, otherwise they will just collapse surprisingly rapidly into mediocrity.

Yes, who cares about Britain's economic base now that we have the entirely false promise of reduced immigration numbers made to clueless people because they might vote UKIP?