{"id":195475,"date":"2025-12-16T23:11:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T23:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/195475\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T23:11:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T23:11:09","slug":"uk-to-rejoin-eus-erasmus-student-exchange-scheme-reports-politics-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/195475\/","title":{"rendered":"UK to rejoin EU’s Erasmus student exchange scheme – reports | Politics News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The UK is to rejoin the European Union’s Erasmus student exchange scheme, according to reports.<\/p>\n

The popular programme, which allowed Britons to spend a year studying at European universities as part of their degree without paying extra fees and vice versa for their European counterparts, ended for British students after Brexit on 1 January 2021.<\/p>\n

But ministers could announce the UK will rejoin Erasmus from January 2027 as soon as Wednesday, The Times and The Guardian have reported.<\/p>\n

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Sir Keir Starmer promised a post-Brexit reset deal with Brussels<\/a> and announced the government was working on rejoining the programme in May.<\/p>\n

Negotiations have included work on “mutually agreed financial terms” for the UK and the EU.<\/p>\n

The UK had pushed for a discount on membership fees, which are calculated on the basis of a country’s gross domestic product (GDP), The Times reported.<\/p>\n

It said the EU is understood to have offered the government a 30% reduction of fees in the first year of membership.<\/p>\n

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Labour MP Darren Frith told Sky News’ Politics Hub he would “welcome” such a move.<\/p>\n

The Guardian reported that as well as university-based study exchanges, British students will be able to participate in vocational training placements under the scheme.<\/p>\n

Cabinet Office minister Nick Thomas-Symonds held talks with Maros Sefcovic, the European Commission’s trade lead, in Brussels last week.<\/p>\n

A Cabinet Office spokesman said: “We are not commenting on ongoing talks.”<\/p>\n

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But the UK’s universities welcomed the apparent breakthrough.<\/p>\n

Tim Bradshaw, chief executive of the Russell Group of leading universities, said: “We’re delighted at the UK’s association to Erasmus+.<\/p>\n

“With an even greater scope than previous programmes, Erasmus+ opens up fantastic opportunities for students, adult learners and young people to all benefit from new experiences and learning.<\/p>\n

“It will also renew the huge contributions that EU students and staff make to life on our university campuses.”<\/p>\n

The Lib Dems, who have been campaigning to rejoin Erasmus, welcomed the news.<\/p>\n

Leader Sir Ed Davey said: “This is a moment of real opportunity and a clear step towards repairing the disastrous Conservative Brexit deal.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The UK is to rejoin the European Union’s Erasmus student exchange scheme, according to reports. The popular programme,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-195475","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}