29 June 2016 Karel Thomas, Executive Director
As many members know, we are taking a keen interest in the news stories that involve universities. We are particularly interested in positive stories and coverage that shows what amazing and life-changing work all our institutions do. Yesterday evening East Midlands Today ran a story on what the future holds for universities outside the EU and covered the launch of a campaign by De Montfort University to protect the residency rights of international staff working there. We understand from the THE that UniversitiesUK will "press on the assurances from Vote Leave about making good any shortfall in lost EU funding", and no doubt every university in the UK is discussing what the vote means for them. Whatever conclusions they each reach, it is essential that universities convince taxpayers, who may have no idea what universities do, that universities are worthy of a place in the queue for scarce funding. There are many lessons to be learned from the referendum campaign...