{"id":196272,"date":"2025-12-17T10:01:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T10:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/196272\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T10:01:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T10:01:07","slug":"erasmus-live-updates-scheme-to-return-for-uk-students-from-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/196272\/","title":{"rendered":"Erasmus live updates: Scheme to return for UK students from 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unclear what will happen to replacement Turing schemepublished at 09:27 GMT<\/p>\n<p>09:27 GMT<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A black and white photo of a young Alan Turing\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/4cf8505f-2b45-4161-9260-bd6b948bbd10.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"2162\" height=\"1216\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The scheme, which replaced Erasmus for UK students, was named after British codebreaker Alan Turing<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is not yet clear what will happen to the Turing scheme, which was set up in 2021, once the UK rejoins Erasmus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Created as a replacement for Erasmus, the Turing scheme has a more global reach, sending students to countries outside of Europe, including Canada, Japan and the US.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was named after Alan Turing, a British mathematician pivotal in helping crack German encrypted communications during World War Two.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">More than 40,000 placements were funded by the Turing scheme in the 2024 to 2025 academic year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/turing-scheme-funding-and-assessment-outcomes-2024-to-2025\/turing-scheme-funding-allocation-and-assessment-outcomes-for-the-2024-to-2025-academic-year\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">costing \u00a3105m in funding, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When it was introduced by Johnson&#8217;s government, ministers said the scheme was an &#8220;improvement&#8221; on Erasmus due to its worldwide scope and increased funding for travel costs. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They also said the programme would particularly help students from disadvantaged backgrounds. Around half of last year&#8217;s placements fell into this category.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unclear what will happen to replacement Turing schemepublished at 09:27 GMT 09:27 GMT Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-196272","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\/196272","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=196272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}