Most people have heard of Erasmus+, but very few know why Britain decided not to participate in it after leaving the EU.

There is growing momentum behind the campaign to reverse the UK government’s decision to exit the European Union’s Erasmus programme, the largest international education programme in the world.

In a strongly-worded joint statement, the two nations said the planned Turing Scheme was a ‘lesser imitation of the real thing’.

The UK will no longer participate in the European Union scheme but will now create the Turing scheme in its place.