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A French university is offering ‘scientific asylum’ for US talent. The brain drain has started | Alexander Hurst

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In six weeks , the Trump administration’s “rapid scheduled disassembly’ of American science has been as sharp and deep as its trashing of US alliances and goodwill.

Academic grants more broadly have been cut, paused and subject to review for a long list of banned words.

This has caused universities across the country to reduce their intake of PhD students, medical students and other graduate students, introduce hiring freezes and rescind some offers of admission.

Research found that non-defence R&D spending returned 200% for the US during the postwar period.

According to the Cross Border Education Research Team , US universities maintain 29 actual campuses in Europe (and far more if you include centres’ and study abroad programmes)..

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