Britain will rejoin the European Union’s Erasmus student-exchange program, the government has announced
FILE - Dr. Peter Sotonyi, rector of the University of Veterinary Medicine in Budapest, Hungary, gives an anatomy lecture for first-year students, using chalk to mark the body of live horses, Monday, Sept 9.
2024. Britain will rejoin the European Union’s flagship Erasmus student-exchange program, it was announced Wednesday, in a major step for efforts to reset the U.K.'s British university and college students and apprentices will be able to study or train in EU countries under the program without paying extra foreign-student fees from January 2027. In turn, students from EU countries will be able to study in Britain. The agreement also covers opportunities to study or train abroad for school pupils, adult learners, educators and sports coaches. Britain's EU Relations Minister Nick Thomas-Symonds said the agreement “is a huge win for our young people, breaking down barriers and widening horizons to ensure everyone, from every background, has the opportunity to study and train abroad.” The U.K. will pay about 570 million pounds for the first year, with the cost for future years to be set later. The almost four-decade-old program is one of the bloc’s most popular achievements and has allowed millions of young Europeans to study in other countries. The program includes several non-EU countries, such as Iceland and Norway.with a bare-bones trade deal that ended the right of British citizens to live, study and work freely across the bloc. Then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson pulled Britain out of Erasmus, saying it was not good value for money.on trade, travel and defense and the two sides are negotiating on lowering trade barriers for food and drink products and on a wider youth-mobility program.
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