The United Kingdom will rejoin the Erasmus scheme for students from 2027, six years after ending its participation as part of Brexit, BBC reported yesterday.
Students in the UK will be able to spend a year in a European Union country as part of their degree courses without paying extra fees, and vice versa for Europeans.
According to Downing Street, the UK will pay £570m in the 2027/28 academic year, which the government says is 30% less than the default price for non-EU states.
A door has reopened – but at a significant cost, BBC’s education editor Branwen Jeffreys wrote yesterday.
The UK replaced the Erasmus scheme with its own Turing scheme in 2021, which has a more global reach – its future is now uncertain.
Both schemes are open not just to university students, but also to people on vocational courses, as well as apprentices.
“This is a moment of real opportunity and a clear step towards repairing the disastrous Conservative Brexit deal,” said Ian Sollom, the Liberal Democratcs’ spokesperson on universities and skills.
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