ERIC Number: EJ1443137
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024-Oct
Pages: 16
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ISSN: ISSN-0018-1560
EISSN: EISSN-1573-174X
Brexit and the War for Talents: Push & Pull Evidence about Competitiveness
Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, v88 n4 p1629-1644 2024
Brexit raised the question of whether the UK will continue to attract internationals. Here the focus is on academic staff - a critical component of the "War for Talents" discourse and current geopolitics in the field. Despite a clear trend of loss of EU internationals, at least among western EU countries, the UK more than compensates for this fall with extra-EU internationals. This is even more evident among younger generations. However, the most notable effect, also having a long-term impact as far as it deals with newer generations, is about average quality of such talents (in this study: salaries at parity of age). Brexit is reducing the capacity to attract/retain the best academics. This happens especially among younger cohorts, and if they come from countries that perform better in GDP per capita, R&D investment, but also national ranking in tolerance and creative class scores. Overall, Brexit is detrimental to the UK in relation to attraction of talents, cutting through a long-term pattern of success.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, International Educational Exchange, Faculty Recruitment, Salary Wage Differentials, Age Differences, Educational Quality, Politics of Education, Educational Indicators
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom
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