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Lifelong Learning and the European Union: What now?
Social Mobility and the Mature Learner UALL 2016 Annual Seminar
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Outline The Brexit issues are little clearer than in June
We should own Brexit as an educational issue We will need to make decisions about our international partnerships
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Analysing Brexit
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Down to racism? Source: Centre for Social Justice/Legatum Institute 2016
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Down to racism? Source: Goodwin & Heath 2016
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Media bias? TV is far more important a news source than newspapers
Readership figures (and advertising revenue) are plummeting The online world is polarised – a series of disparate comfort zones
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Is it more about class? Source: Centre for Social Justice/Legatum Institute 2016
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Is it also about education?
Source: Goodwin & Heath 2016
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Is it also about education?
While Goodwin and Heath report a close correlation between electoral support for UKIP and the Remain vote, ‘public support for Brexit is more polarised along education lines than support for UKIP was’. Source: Goodwin & Heath 2016
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And overall? …the vote for Brexit was delivered by the ‘left behind’ – social groups that are united by a general sense of insecurity, pessimism and marginalisation, who do not feel as though elites, whether in Brussels and Westminster, share their values, represent their interests and genuinely empathise with their intense angst about rapid social, economic and cultural change. Source: Goodwin & Heath 2016
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And after Brexit . . .
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University Lifelong Learning and the EU
European dimension Likely impact of Brexit Erasmus+ Horizon2020 Structural Funds Skills agenda Broad EU policy
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University Lifelong Learning and Europe
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Wider opportunities beyond Europe?
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