{"id":815701,"date":"2026-10-27T18:18:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T18:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/815701\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T18:18:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T18:18:13","slug":"belga-share-united-kingdom-rejoins-erasmus-student-exchange-from-1-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/815701\/","title":{"rendered":"Belga Share &#8211; United Kingdom rejoins Erasmus+ student exchange from 1 January"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The decision to readmit the UK to the Erasmus programme after it left the European Union in 2020 dates back to last May&#8217;s EU-UK summit. It is part of the Labour government&#8217;s efforts to strengthen ties with the EU. In December, the UK and the EU reached an agreement allowing the UK to rejoin the programme from 2027.<\/p>\n<p>   British Foreign Office minister Hamish Falconer confirmed on Tuesday that young people wishing to study, train, or gain work experience in the EU can apply from November. He told parliament that &#8220;all types of educational institutions&#8221; would be able to benefit from the opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>   The UK left the Erasmus programme as part of former prime minister Boris Johnson&#8217;s Brexit deal in 2020, because, according to the prime minister, the scheme did not offer value for money. The British government replaced it with the Turing Scheme exchange programme, which it discontinued after announcing the Erasmus deal.<\/p>\n<p>   London had previously indicated that up to 100,000 Britons a year could take part in the programme, and that the UK would pay around 570 million pounds (648 million euros) for its participation in the 2027-28 academic year.<\/p>\n<p>The initial translation of this content was generated by AI. All facts, context, and language have subsequently been verified and validated by a human editorial team. <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/belga.be\/ai-disclaimer-belga-english\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The decision to readmit the UK to the Erasmus programme after it left the European Union in 2020&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":815702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[229738,1398,59,57,58,50,84397,56,54,267645,55],"class_list":["post-815701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-belga-english","tag-education","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-politics-and-government","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-kingdom-rejoins-erasmus-student-exchange-from-1-january","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=815701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/815702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}