Since the Brexit referendum in 2016, and the formal act of triggering article 50 by Theresa May’s cabinet in 2017, the UK has entered a period of negotiations, the outcome of which, and also the terms of the post-exiting phase, are still uncertain. In this period of uncertainty, the mobility of people is one of the main issues at stake. The topic is important for the higher education sector where the percentage of (other) European Union staff in UK universities has grown at an impressive rate in recent years before the Brexit referendum. This paper draws from official Higher Education Statistic Agency (HESA) data to investigate if there is any inversion of this trend in the British system, arguing that some ‘Brexodus’ of academic staff - meaning a decrease in the percentage of other EU nationals - has already started for some academics, namely the youngest and the brightest.

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高等教育人员和英国退欧。英国是否正在失去其他欧盟国家最年轻、最聪明的人？

自2016年脱欧公投、2017年特蕾莎·梅内阁正式启动第50条后，英国进入谈判阶段，谈判结果以及脱欧后的条款仍不确定. 在这个不确定的时期，人员流动是关键问题之一。这个话题对高等教育部门很重要，在英国脱欧公投前的几年里，英国大学中（其他）欧盟工作人员的比例以惊人的速度增长。本文利用高等教育统计局 (HESA) 的官方数据来调查英国体系中是否存在这种趋势的逆转，认为某些学术人员的“Brexodus”——意味着其他欧盟国民的百分比下降——已经一些学者已经开始，