• Update on future EU students’ status following Brexit

    The UK currently registers 134,835 students from other EU countries and despite the high number, all universities are finding themselves unable to give exact answers to EU students who are enquiring about the 2019–20 entry. With more than 80% of students registering an interest in studying abroad more than...
  • What Brexit might mean for travel

    Introduced in 1995, the Schengen Agreement allows more than five hundred European citizens to freely move, work and live in most European countries. The UK is not officially part of this border-free area, but still allows European citizens to travel in and out of the country. Crossing borders without...
  • Album Review: Don Broco – Technology

    Back with their third album Technology, Don Broco introduce a heavier and more complex sound than previously seen on their first two albums Priorities (2012) and Automatic (2015). The Bedford rock band showcase an experimental approach to song-writing across all fourteen tracks, with a collection of high-energy songs that...
  • Twelve bits of Christmas politics

    The Grinch Who Stole Your Internet Freedom: net neutrality in the US and how it affects us. This phrase, coined by Columbia professor Tim Wu in 2003, is the idea that – funnily enough – all internet providers and governments should treat all data equally: basically, no-one should switch up...
  • Hopes For European Capital Of Culture Crushed By Brexit

    The campaign trail had been ignited; the bid had begun. Nottingham had declared itself a candidate in the 2023 race to be named European Capital of Culture. Social media accounts had been created; banners adorned the square; time had been sacrificed; money had been invested. And then came the...
  • BREAKING: Nottingham 2023 bid cancelled by EU decision over Brexit

    Nottingham will not be allowed to host the European Capital of Culture in 2023 after the European Commission announced that UK access would be “discontinued” after Brexit. In a letter to the UK Government, Martine Reicherts, the European Union (EU) Director-General for Education and Culture, said that “following its...
  • UoN International and EU staff talk life after Brexit

    Impact talked to two non-UK teaching staff from the University of Nottingham (UoN) about how they have been affected by Brexit. Many educational experts claimed that the referendum result to leave the European Union would leave a devastating impact on EU teaching staff at British universities. It has now,...