{"id":6401,"date":"2015-07-29T07:12:39","date_gmt":"2015-07-29T07:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6401"},"modified":"2015-07-29T07:12:59","modified_gmt":"2015-07-29T07:12:59","slug":"what-price-an-educational-brexit-or-should-that-be-brexodus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2015\/07\/29\/what-price-an-educational-brexit-or-should-that-be-brexodus\/","title":{"rendered":"What educational price a Brexit \u2013 or should that be Brexodus?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeshighereducation.co.uk\/features\/brexit-the-perks-and-pitfalls-for-higher-education?page=0%2C0&amp;page%3D0=1\">THE<\/a> recently carried quite a careful article on whether UK universities would be better off in \/ out of the EU. \u00a0Or, it might have been about whether UK\u00a0university <em>research<\/em>\u00a0would be better off in \/ out of the EU \u2013 I could never quite make up my mind. \u00a0These are not quite the same thing of course.<\/p>\n<p>As ever, there are academics with good stories to tell \u2013 mostly about the excellence of collaboration \u2013 and ones with not-so-good stories\u00a0\u2013 mostly about the EU's awful bureaucracy and decision-making processes. \u00a0As it happens, I can tell both kinds of story with exactly these features. \u00a0I am now safely out of the system, of course, and need no longer be apprehensive about the EU's decision-making which always seemed whimsical, at best, and quite cynical at its worst. \u00a0The collaboration was always excellent.<\/p>\n<p>From a Brexodus perspective (my preferred term because of its appropriately Old Testament\u00a0overtones), the issue is whether we'd be prevented from collaboration. \u00a0This is the same sort of question as: would the Germans stop selling us cars? \u00a0Well, it's not\u00a0<em>quite<\/em> the same question.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, UK universities still seem to manage to get big EU grants to study dodgy topics like the benefits of ESD. \u00a0Maybe a Brexodus\u00a0would end these? \u00a0A price worth\u00a0paying perhaps; now, where did I put that UKIP membership form ...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The THE recently carried quite a careful article on whether UK universities would be better off in \/ out of the EU. \u00a0Or, it might have been about whether UK\u00a0university research\u00a0would be better off in \/ out of the EU...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}