{"id":18701,"date":"2019-07-23T12:55:15","date_gmt":"2019-07-23T12:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/?p=18701"},"modified":"2019-07-23T12:55:15","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T12:55:15","slug":"uk-education-minister-resigns-brexit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/uk-education-minister-resigns-brexit\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Education Minister resigns over Brexit concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Anne Milton, the UK Education Minister, has just announced her resignation from the position,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> stating that Brexit and the Tory party have made her increasingly concerned for the future of the country.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Having abstained in the vote last week, today I have resigned from the Government.  It has been an honour to serve on the Conservative frontbenches, my thanks to everyone I have had the pleasure of working alongside. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ELo1Y30YqC\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/ELo1Y30YqC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Rt Hon Anne Milton (@AnneMilton) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AnneMilton\/status\/1153609155489468417?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 23, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In her resignation letter, Ms. Milton stated that <\/span><b>while this is one of the hardest decisions she has had to take throughout her career, she is not comfortable working with no-deal Brexit supporters.\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to many members of parliament, <\/span><b>a hard exit from the European Union is not the solution to the <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-politics-32810887\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Brexit<\/b><\/a><b> crisis.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> However, currently, there is an increased possibility that Tory members will take high positions in the government after Prime Minister Theresa May\u2019s resignation comes into force.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">UK Education and Brexit<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ms. Milton\u2019s resignation is just one of several examples of how <strong>UK<\/strong> <\/span><b>education has been negatively affected by Brexit negotiations.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Recent research has concluded that<\/span><b> students and parents across the country show less interest in <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/brexit-has-a-negative-effect-on-language-learning-across-the-uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>foreign languages<\/b><\/a><b>, as a result of the UK\u2019s exit from the European Union.\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Increased tensions regarding the future relationship with the European Union has also made <\/span><b>international students reconsider going to British higher education.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> While research shows that students from Asian countries, especially <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/staggering-increase-in-the-inflow-of-chinese-undergraduates-to-uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">China<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, are actively looking to join universities in the UK, the data for European citizens indicates that there is a significant drop in applications.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Brexit will bring an unpredictable wave of changes across all systems in the United Kingdom, including the educational one. However, what is worrying is that people in important positions like Ms. Milton are resigning because of the<\/span><b> severity of consequences they expect, in case of a no-deal exit.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anne Milton, the UK Education Minister, has just announced her resignation from the position, stating that Brexit and the Tory party have made her increasingly concerned for the future of the country.\u00a0 Having abstained in the vote last week, today I have resigned from the Government. It has been an honour to serve on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":18702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,3],"tags":[105,219,471,1175],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18701"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}