POSTED 02/10/2011
By Ben Wildavsky – From CASE CURRENTS
Ben Wildavsky is a senior fellow in research and policy at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and author of The Great Brain Race: How Global Universities Are Reshaping the World (Princeton University Press, 2010). Mr. Wildavsky also serves as a consultant to Lipman Hearne, where he contributes to our work for clients addressing education policy and reform.
When Britain’s recently elected coalition government began implementing new visa restrictions last year, it soon became clear that proposed quotas on foreign academics would cause great distress to the nation’s universities. “Unless we are able to bring in world-leading researchers, the extraordinary international quality of U.K. research will plummet,” wrote Nicola Dandridge, chief executive of Universities UK, which represents British university leaders, in a Guardian column. “World-class research requires world-class people, and we simply can’t adopt a fortress Britain attitude.”
While the visa limitations for academics were ultimately less severe than opponents had feared, concerns like Dandrige’s remain a reality in many countries across the globe.
To read more, download Rethinking Restrictions: Academic protectionism is no help to any country.
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