UK quant academics fear Brexit brain drain

Brexit hitting graduate jobs, funding and “driving European academics away from the UK”, say universities

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The UK’s impending departure from the European Union is already having a severely detrimental impact on the country’s quant finance academic community, claim senior scholars, with several citing a knock-on effect on student job placements and staff departures.

Several senior academics that spoke to Risk.net variously blame Brexit for: difficulties in placing graduates for jobs and internships; the departure of key teaching staff from their institutions; a decline in the number of EU students

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