The UK is poorer without Erasmus – it’s time to rejoin the European exchange programme

By Sascha Stollhans, Associate Professor of Language Pedagogies, University of Leeds

The United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the Erasmus+ scheme – a reciprocal exchange process that let UK students study at European universities, and European students come to the UK – is again under the spotlight.

Campaigns for the UK’s re-entry to the scheme are ongoing. But diplomat Nick Leake told a committee meeting in Brussels that the terms for the UK to remain part of Erasmus+ were too expensive, and that Brits’…

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