Erasmus v Turing: Why Erasmus was better for disadvantaged students. Have a quick read. 👇
Erasmus enabled further education students to gain work experience abroad but can Turing do the same?
I worked at Erasmus in Brussels for a year. It was a really great scheme, well funded and fairly allocated.
My son did Erasmus it opened doors and he now lives and works in the US. School never saw his potential but thankfully he was able to get a placement, learn Spanish and it changed his life. He certainly was not in a privileged position.
In my experience, Tory cuts at HMRC and the extra burden HMRC bear because of Brexit (they appear to have hardly started on the workload that created) means UK students will simply cease to be considered habitually resident or members of any NI scheme anywhere whilst still forced to pay tax ex UK
What is equally annoying and ridiculous about Brexit is we waste precioud resources re-inventing the wheels, often leaving out a few spokes!
My daughter, a Cambridge MML student currently working in France, has seen the extra costs, admin and delays with visas too. Of 3 interns they all had problem with their FR visas and needed a 2nd visit (and another £70 fee on top of the visa cost). That’s not easy unless your parents are well off.
Another massive loss from Erasmus+ was the fabulous EU schools eTwinning programme which provided a safe online space and teacher support for school partnerships and interschool projects…right from nursery to sixth form. NI got to keep it but England, Scotland and Wales lost out.