The Turing scheme was supposed to help more disadvantaged UK students study abroad – but they may still be losing out
08/03/2024
The loss of access for UK university students to the Erasmus+ scheme – a Europe-wide exchange programme that offers students the opportunity and funding to study or work abroad for up to a year – was a widely mourned consequence of Brexit.
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Students say the Turing Scheme is plagued with problems and leaves them facing uncertainty even after they begin study.
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SCOTLAND has received around £14 million less under the UK Government’s post- Brexit student exchange programme compared to the EU’s Erasmus+ scheme.
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It comes after Boris Johnson’s government decided to end UK participation in the EU’s Erasmus+ programme.
Scottish ministers are under fresh pressure to boost student exchange links with the EU as frustration grows over Britain’s post-Brexit Turing Scheme.
Some institutions faced insolvency last year, the report from the Scottish Affairs Committee adds.
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Wales is to launch a new international learning exchange programme following the UK government’s decision to withdraw from Erasmus after Brexit.
The replacement for the Erasmus scheme has been opened - but critics say it's much less generous than the programme available before Brexit.
'Less support and fewer opportunities': What the UK’s Erasmus alternative could mean for students
10/03/2021
It was once considered a rite of passage for millions of students who lived, worked, and travelled across Europe - but access to a new British scheme this year hopes to make the Erasmus programme a distant memory.
The replacement for the Erasmus study exchange scheme will not fund tuition or travel costs, it has emerged – and the living allowance has been slashed.
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.