Questions Without Notice from Party Spokespeople

Part of 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education – in the Senedd at 1:43 pm on 17 October 2018.

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Photo of Kirsty Williams Kirsty Williams Liberal Democrat 1:43, 17 October 2018

I have to say, Presiding Officer, that the Member, and perhaps her colleagues around her—but I can never tell whether there is consensus amongst the members of the UKIP group—are the only people who I know, in the FE and the HE sectors, who are approaching Brexit without trepidation. I would urge her to listen to Universities Wales and the FE sector about the very real challenges that are going to face further and higher education as a result of Brexit: the fact that there will be restrictions on the number of students who can come and study here; the fact that there is already a huge amount of disquiet from European members of faculty who are potentially already making decisions to leave Welsh HE and go and work elsewhere; the threat to Horizon 2020 and the threat to the availability of Welsh students to participate in Erasmus+. All of those issues present a very real threat to our FE and HE sectors.