Hard Brexit 'may spark disaster' for universities, MPs told

Cambridge University has experienced a 14% drop in applications from across the continent for undergraduate courses since the EU referendum, the Education Select Committee was told. Meanwhile, hostility towards immigrants, the devaluation of the pound and uncertainty over research projects has deterred postgraduates from heading to the UK, it has been claimed. Alistair Fitt, vice-chancellor of Oxford Brookes University, told the committee that if the Government opts for a so-called hard Brexit a