{"id":642419,"date":"2025-12-19T15:07:45","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T15:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/642419\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T15:07:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T15:07:45","slug":"students-react-to-uk-rejoining-erasmus-scheme-as-tories-accuse-ministers-of-caving-into-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/642419\/","title":{"rendered":"Students react to UK rejoining Erasmus scheme as Tories accuse ministers of caving into EU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Erasmus will help with study abroad costs but bureaucratic hurdles remain, professor sayspublished at 15:12 GMT 17 December<\/p>\n<p>15:12 GMT 17 December<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/500f9134-0157-44f8-9a39-84fda3206228.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/><strong>Cachella Smith<\/strong><br \/>Live reporter<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Headshot of David Clarke\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/339f9135-ec85-4365-91ea-6addb8a4a019.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1241\" height=\"698\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, David Clarke<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-cgjb6m-Keyword e2vephq0\">David Clarke<\/b>, head of the School of Modern Languages at Cardiff University says he is &#8220;very pleased&#8221; by today&#8217;s announcement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But he adds that students continue to face &#8220;bureaucratic hurdles&#8221; when heading on placements in European countries after Brexit, including acquiring visas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking to me earlier, Clarke explains that the costs associated with going abroad as part of study courses have been &#8220;growing&#8221; in recent years &#8211; which has prompted concerns that it could make the opportunity &#8220;more exclusive&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In Cardiff, the university has had access to the Welsh government&#8217;s Taith scheme in addition to the Turing programme &#8211; which Clarke says he is &#8220;very grateful&#8221; for.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Excellent as those initiatives were, they were not covering the same amount of support that Erasmus used to offer for students going abroad,&#8221; he explains.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Separately, while today&#8217;s announcement represents a positive step, Clarke says more is needed to support students as he highlights the stresses and extra costs associated with getting visas after Brexit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;What we really need to see to back this move up is some kind of youth mobility scheme to take away those bureaucratic hurdles.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He welcomes the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/live\/c4g654qgl83t?post=asset%3Ab72bc14d-1bee-4452-bb7c-9f1bb5305404#post\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">government&#8217;s plan<\/a> allowing Erasmus grant-making bodies in the UK to allocate some funding for those keen to study outside EU member states.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The global dimension of the Turing and Taith schemes that previously replaced Erasmus were particularly strong on this global dimension and it is good to see that this will be maintained under the new agreement.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Erasmus will help with study abroad costs but bureaucratic hurdles remain, professor sayspublished at 15:12 GMT 17 December&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":642420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,748,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-642419","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-european-union","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115746862371712365","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}