Many Canadian and British universities have agreements to facilitate exchanges of students, researchers and teaching staff. There are thriving programmes of Canadian studies at several British universities, like Edinburgh and Queen's, Belfast. Canadian alumni and friends of Oxford University have financed the creation there of a new Lester Pearson Chair of International Relations. The first holder is a Canadian, Professor Neil McFarlane. A British professor shared with a Canadian the 1996 Nobel Prize for economics.
Some Canadian universities are physically present in Britain.
This helps to bring more students from Canada into direct contact with Britain and the rest of Europe. Memorial University of Newfoundland has long maintained a base at Harlow in Essex. Queen's University from Kingston, Ontario, opened in 1993 a European campus at Herstmonceux Castle in Sussex. Activities like these are encouraged by the recent agreement on academic exchanges between Canada and the European Union. Government support for scientific research follows a similar pattern in both countries.