It has been a busy summer for politicians, policy makers, thinkers, and universities, debating the role of higher education in global affairs.
Before we get to the summer proper let’s cast our collective minds back to early June where in a previous edition of Wonkhe I wrote that:
in a world in which the UK is facing major international challenges arising from Brexit, hostile nations, and geopolitical instability in other parts of the world, should universities start thinking of themselves as de facto foreign policy actors in their own right?
Over the summer this question has started to come to a head. Parliamentary committees, charities, and think-tanks have been looking at the extent to which universities might further, or inhibit, or in some cases work in opposition to, UK foreign policy.
