Erasmus founder Corradi advocated for cultural, social and academic exchanges among European students, on her return to Rome from US in 1969. Sofia Corradi, the Italian professor of educational scienc...

Chancellor cites the UK’s exit from EU alongside austerity and Truss’s mini-budget as issues affecting economy Downing Street is under pressure to publish its evidence in the collapsed China spy case after the Crown Prosecution Service denied having blocked its release, Emine Sinmaz reports. Good morning. In a much-praised FT column yesterday, Stephen Bush argued that one problem facing the Conservatives today is that “an essential condition for entry into the upper echelons of [the party] is being willing to at least pretend that you think taking Britain out of the EU was a good idea”. As Bush memorably put it, “this is a never-ending lobotomy for the Tories”. Starmer and Reeves are expected to argue that, if it hadn’t been for Brexit, this type of downgrade would not have been needed, and to cite official figures suggesting that if Britain had not left the European Union the economy would be about £120bn bigger by 2035 than current forecasts suggest it will be. The message is simple: [Nigel] Farage is ultimately to blame as the man who delivered Brexit with “easy sloganeering” then walked away from the aftermath rather than putting in the hard yards. Or, to put it another way: Farage, not us, is responsible for putting up your taxes. Austerity, Brexit, and the ongoing impact of Liz Truss’s mini-budget, all of those things have weighed heavily on the UK economy. Already, people thought that the UK economy would be 4% smaller because of Brexit. Now, of course, we are undoing some of that damage by the deal that we did with the EU earlier this year … but there is no doubting that the impact of Brexit is severe and long lasting and that’s why we are trying to do trade deals around the world, US, India, but most importantly with the EU. Continue reading...

Loss of EU students made recruitment more commercial and universities more insular, argues new book

As I read 200 books from different regions, I gained a clarity news reports seldom give, says journalist and author Pushpinder Khaneka

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Less than half taking foreign languages GCSEs compared with 69% in most prosperous state schools

Artificial intelligence systems forecast to require almost as much energy by end of decade as Japan uses today Artificial intelligence systems could approach accounting for half of data centre power consumption by the end of this year, according to new analysis. The estimates by Alex de Vries-Gao, the founder of the Digiconomist tech sustainability website, came as the International Energy Agency (IEA) forecast that AI would require almost as much energy by the end of this decade as Japan uses today. Continue reading...

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Open trade with Europe is more important to the UK than a deal with Donald Trump, most Britons believe

07/06/2025 @ All Day - ITI Scottish Network invites you to its summer workshop on S U S T A I N A B I L I T Y W I T H AIDA FE R R E R  A G U I L A R , M A R J O L E I N  T H I C [...]

The workshop on Creative-text Translation and Technology (CTT) aims to attract a broad range of attendees, such as researchers, educators, translators and industry stakeholders, to discuss the applica...

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Economic, cultural and educational risks of proposed closure of the School of Modern Languages at the University of Cardiff.

British Chambers of Commerce asks for policy ‘reset’ after poll finds companies want greater flexibility Many exporters are still struggling with post-Brexit trading rules, the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) has said, as it urges the government to…

Los impuestos bajos, el inglés y una fuerza laboral muy formada han convertido a Irlanda en uno de los países más ricos y con las arcas públicas más llenas de Europa mientras sus vecinos británicos ap...