More UK academic staff come from outside the European Union than from inside the bloc for the first time, new figures reveal.
Data from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (Hesa) show that 240,420 academic staff were employed at UK higher education providers on 1 December 2022 – 17 per cent (40,195) of whom were from outside the EU.
Whereas this was a rise of 11 per cent on the number of academic staff from outside the EU the year before, the number of academics from the EU fell for the third year in a row, to 37,585.
With people from the EU making up 16 per cent of the academic workforce, it is the first time since comparable figures began that they have been outnumbered by non-EU staff.
