(MENAFN- The Peninsula) Students at Falmouth University have a lot riding on May's general election, which if won by the Conservatives will trigger a referendum on Britain's membership of the European Union and threaten their funding.
The university's giant bay windows open out on to the idyllic rolling valleys of Cornwall, south-west England, but inside its modernist buildings, the university is a hub of hi-tech activity.
In the video games department, a student hones the settings on a pair of virtual reality goggles in front of a table crammed with cables and joysticks. On the shelves, piles of programming manuals lie next to models from the game Assassin's Creed.
"The EU has been incredibly important to Falmouth University," professor Anne Carlisle, vice-chancellor at the institution, told AFP, joking that they hoped to create a "Falmouthfornia" tech-zone modelled on Silicon Valley.
"Over a 14-year period, over £100 million ($146 million, 140 million euros) has been invested into Cornwall higher education to improve infrastructure."
"The idea that might not exist in the future through some kind of closing of borders is absolutely horrifying," she added.
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