Representing 70,000 students across Birmingham, student leaders at Birmingham City University, Aston University and University of Birmingham have joined forces to demand that the voice of students and young people across the city are heard as the government approaches the beginning of Brexit negotiations.
In a unique cross-city collaboration, Ellie Keiller, Jo Goodman and Ahmed Hassan (Students’ Union Presidents for the three Birmingham universities) have joined forces to lay out the priorities and demands of second city students to be sent to MPs in the hope of informing the coming negotiations on Britain’s departure from the EU.
Key priorities for the city’s tens of thousands of students include: community cohesion, the right for EU citizens to live and work in the UK, the preservation of the Erasmus Scheme (which allows thousands of students to study abroad every year), the ring-fencing of £836million research funding (equivalent to that attracted from the EU) and protection of apprenticeships for Birmingham’s young people.