The number of academics from several major European countries working in UK higher education has shrunk for the first time, a report says.
International Facts and Figures 2022, published by Universities UK International on 30 June, says that nearly one in three (32.1 per cent) academics working in the UK in 2020-21 came from overseas – a total of 71,475 – and of these, more than half (53.5 per cent) were from the European Union.
While Italian nationals continued to form the largest group of international academic staff, with 6,635 of them in the UK, their cohort shrank that year for the first time since 2004-05, when the Higher Education Statistics Agency started collecting data. The drop was marginal, at 0.3 per cent.
